CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0901

8.8 HIGH Published 2009-07-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-07-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-457, CWE-94

Description

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."

Affected configurations

• microsoft visual c\+\+ 2005 • microsoft visual c\+\+ 2008 • microsoft visual studio 2005 • microsoft visual studio 2008 • microsoft visual studio .net 2003

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-457 Use of Uninitialized Variable weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References