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Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBE6.DLL Stack Memory Corruption Vulnerability( 12 May 2010 )

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 12 May 2010 5154 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications searches for ActiveX controls. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a host application opens and passes a specially crafted file to the Visual Basic for Applications runtime. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Microsoft Office XP
  • Microsoft Office 2003
  • 2007 Microsoft Office System
  • Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications
  • Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications SDK

Solutions

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