CVE-2006-4494

Summary

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code by instantiating certain Visual Studio 6.0 ActiveX COM Objects in Internet Explorer, including (1) tcprops.dll, (2) fp30wec.dll, (3) mdt2db.dll, (4) mdt2qd.dll, and (5) vi30aut.dll.

Impact & exploitability

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

• NVD record
• http://www.xsec.org/index.php?module=releases&act=view&type=1&id=15Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1473
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443499/100/100/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19572