A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an error in the way the VBScript and JScript scripting engines decode scripts in Web pages to allow the scripts to load into memory in order to run, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page [...]
References
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1146
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-022.mspx
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Peter Ferrie (Symantec).
ChangeLog
2008-04-08 : Initial release
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