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CVE-2009-2493

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…

Impact

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."

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MicrosoftVisual C\+\+
Versions 2005, 2008
MicrosoftWindows 2000
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 2003 Server
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Vista
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Xp
All versions
MicrosoftVisual Studio
Versions 2003, 2005, 2008

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