CVE-2008-2959 in Visual Basic Enterprise Edition

Summary

Buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control (vb6skit.dll) in Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition 6.0 SP6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long lpstrLinkPath argument to the fCreateShellLink function.

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• Reservation: 07/02/2008
• Disclosure: 07/02/2008
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-43009
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 10.0
• EPSS: 0.34704
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2959
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2959
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-2959/