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CVE-2009-0901

CVE information

Published

14 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold, and Visual C++ 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1; and Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2; does not prevent VariantClear calls on an uninitialized VARIANT, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed stream to an ATL (1) component or (2) control, related to ATL headers and error handling, aka "ATL Uninitialized Object Vulnerability.".

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
9.3/10
Exploit Score
8.6/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_c\+\+:2008:sp1_redistribution_pkg
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2003:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2005:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2008:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2008:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_c\+\+:2008:redistribution_pkg:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2005:sp1:64_bit_hosted_vis
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_c\+\+:2005:sp1_redistribution_pkg
  Yes
- -

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