CVE-2009-2493

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1, 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 properly restrict use of OleLoadFromStream in instantiating objects from data streams, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control, related to ATL headers and bypassing security policies, aka "ATL COM Initialization Vulnerability."

The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1, 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 properly restrict use of OleLoadFromStream in instantiating objects from data streams, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control, related to ATL headers and bypassing security policies, aka "ATL COM Initialization Vulnerability."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 15 years ago

2009-07-29 17:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:51:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1

2005

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1

2008

Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (initial release)

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Vista

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3

Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 sp1

2003

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

2008

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