CVE-2006-4494

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code by instantiating certain Visual Studio 6.0 ActiveX COM Objects in Internet Explorer, including (1) tcprops.dll, (2) fp30wec.dll, (3) mdt2db.dll, (4) mdt2qd.dll, and (5) vi30aut.dll.

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code by instantiating certain Visual Studio 6.0 ActiveX COM Objects in Internet Explorer, including (1) tcprops.dll, (2) fp30wec.dll, (3) mdt2db.dll, (4) mdt2qd.dll, and (5) vi30aut.dll.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-08-31 22:04:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-17 21:37:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0

6.0

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 1

6.0

References

1473

20060817 [XSec-06-07]: Visual Studio 6.0 Multiple COM Object Instantiation Vulnerability

19572

http://www.xsec.org/index.php?module=releases&act=view&type=1&id=15

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