CVE-2009-0901

Summary

The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold, 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 prevent VariantClear calls on an uninitialized VARIANT, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed stream to an ATL (1) component or (2) control, related to ATL headers and error handling, aka "ATL Uninitialized Object Vulnerability."

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

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

Official patch: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-04.html ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-04.htmlPatch
• http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/08/11/ms09-037-why-we-are-using-cve-s-already-used-in-ms09-035.aspx
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126592505426855&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35967
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36187
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36374
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36746
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266108-1