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Vulnerability in Visual Studio 2005 Could Allow Remote Code Execution (925674)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the version of visual studio

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the web
browser.

Description :

The remote host is running a version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
which is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when handling malformed WMI
request in the ActiveX component.

A possible hacker may exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on this
host, by entice a use to visit a specially crafter web page.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for VS2005 :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-073.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5.6
(AV:R/AC:H/Au:NR/C:P/I:P/A:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 20843

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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