Vulnerability CVE-2008-4299
Published: 2008-09-29   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
A certain ActiveX control in the Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) Helper COM Component in iashlpr.dll allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a large integer value in the first argument to the PutProperty method. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so it might be incorrect.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
IAS Helper COM Component (iashlpr.dll) activex remote DOS
hamedata gmail c...
01.10.2008

Type:

CWE-189

 (Numeric Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Microsoft -> Internet authentication service helper com component 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4323
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496695/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45556
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