Vulnerability CVE-2009-2493
Published: 2009-07-29   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
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."

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Microsoft -> Visual c++ 
Microsoft -> Visual studio 
Microsoft -> Visual studio .net 
Microsoft -> Windows 2000 
Microsoft -> Windows 2003 server 
Microsoft -> Windows server 2008 
Microsoft -> Windows vista 
Microsoft -> Windows xp 

 References:
http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/08/11/ms09-037-why-we-are-using-cve-s-already-used-in-ms09-035.aspx
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126592505426855&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264648-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266108-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020775.1-1
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-04.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-10.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-11.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-13.html
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7004997&sliceId=1
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2493.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-195A.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-223A.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286A.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-342A.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-035
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-037
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-055
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-060
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-072
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6245
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6304
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6421
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6473
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6621
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6716
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