Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 information disclosure

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A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (Programming Tool Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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 does not properly enforce string termination, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control that triggers a buffer over-read, related to ATL headers and buffer allocation, aka "ATL Null String Vulnerability."

The weakness was presented 07/29/2009 by iDefense Labs with VeriSign iDefense Labs (Website). The advisory is available at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability was named CVE-2009-2495. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/13/2021). This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 40421 (Shockwave Player < 11.5.0.601 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB09-11)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 116529 (Adobe Acrobat and Reader Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (APSA09-03 and APSB09-10)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (52137) and Tenable (40421). See 4049, 50451, 50449 and 50448 for similar entries.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592

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Nessus ID: 40421
Nessus Name: Shockwave Player < 11.5.0.601 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB09-11)
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OpenVAS ID: 900809
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Visual Studio ATL Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (969706)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: iDefense Labs
Organization: VeriSign iDefense Labs
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2009-2495 (🔍)
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X-Force: 52137
Vulnerability Center: 23746 - [MS09-035] Microsoft Visual Studio and Visual C++ ATL Null String Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 35830 - Microsoft Visual Studio Active Template Library NULL String Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 08/13/2021 08:09
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (63), 02/15/2017 09:33 (10), 08/13/2021 08:06 (4), 08/13/2021 08:09 (1)
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