CVE-2008-1442: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 38.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the substringData method in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to an unspecified manipulation of a DOM object before a call to this method, aka the "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7 only

Published 2008-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.