CVE-2008-2959

published 2008-07-02

CVE-2008-2959: Buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control (vb6skit.dll) in Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition 6.0 SP6 might allow remote attackers to execute…

Priority P3 50 critical 9.3 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC M Au N C C I C A C

EXPLOIT

Buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control (vb6skit.dll) in Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition 6.0 SP6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long lpstrLinkPath argument to the fCreateShellLink function.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
microsoft	visual_basic_enterprise_edition	—	—

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