Buffer overflow in Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition

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 arbitrary code via a long lpstrLinkPath argument to the fCreateShellLink function.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.248 (97.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Visual_basic_enterprise_edition — versions 6.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)