RULE(RULE ID:713176)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2019-07-06
Rule Name: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Masked Edit ActiveX Control Mask Parameter Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2008-3704)
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Rule Protection Details
Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in the MaskedEdit ActiveX control in Msmask32.ocx 6.0.81.69, and possibly other versions before 6.0.84.18, in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long Mask parameter, related to not "validating property values with boundary checks," as exploited in the wild in August 2008, aka "Masked Edit Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Impact: An attacker can execute arbitrary code in the context of the vulnerable system. Failed exploit may cause denial-of-service attack.
Affected OS: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Other Unix, Network Device, Mac OS, iOS, Android, Others
Reference: SecurityFocusBID:30674
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070
ExploitDB:6244
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
Solutions
The vendors have released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-070.mspx