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Secunia Security Advisory 22603

Secunia Security Advisory 22603
Posted Nov 1, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Visual Studio, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

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Secunia Security Advisory 22603

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To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of
additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the
advisories to German.

The improvements will help our customers to get a better
understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated,
our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios.

This includes:
* Reason for rating
* Extended description
* Extended solution
* Exploit code or links to exploit code
* Deep links

Read the full description:
http://corporate.secunia.com/products/48/?r=l

Contact Secunia Sales for more information:
http://corporate.secunia.com/how_to_buy/15/?r=l

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TITLE:
Microsoft Visual Studio WMI Object Broker ActiveX Control Code
Execution

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22603

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22603/

CRITICAL:
Extremely critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
http://secunia.com/product/6779/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Visual Studio, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the WMI
Object Broker ActiveX Control (WmiScriptUtils.dll).

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a
user e.g. visits a malicious website using Internet Explorer.

The vulnerability is reported in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

NOTE: The vulnerability is already being actively exploited.

SOLUTION:
Microsoft has recommended various workarounds including setting the
kill-bit for the affected ActiveX control (see the vendor's advisory
for details).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered as a 0-day.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/927709.mspx

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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