CVE-2008-4254
Multiple integer overflows in the Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX control (mshflxgd.ocx) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro 8.0…
- 8.5HighCVSS base score
- 22.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple integer overflows in the Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX control (mshflxgd.ocx) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) Rows and (2) Cols properties to the (a) ExpandAll and (b) CollapseAll methods, related to access of incorrectly initialized objects and corruption of the "system state," aka "Hierarchical FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High8.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 22.1% · top 2.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5805 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3382 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-72/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1021369 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- MS08-070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20081209 Secunia Research: Microsoft Hierarchical FlexGrid Control Integer Overflows (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- TA08-344A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-4237 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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