CVE-2008-3475: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 39.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 does not properly handle errors related to using the componentFromPoint method on xml objects that have been (1) incorrectly initialized or (2) deleted, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only; version 6 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2008-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.