CVE-2008-4800 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the DebugDiag ActiveX control (CrashHangExt.dll) within Microsoft Debug Diagnostic Tool, potentially crashing Internet Explorer 6.0. The vulnerability is triggered by providing a large negative integer to the GetEntryPointForThread method. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only resulting in partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:debug_diagnostic_tool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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