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CVE-2009-2493
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 37.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2009-07-29 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-264
Description
The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1, 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 properly restrict use of OleLoadFromStream in instantiating objects from data streams, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control, related to ATL headers and bypassing security policies, aka "ATL COM Initialization Vulnerability."
Affected products
- Microsoft Visual C++: 2005-sp1, 2008, 2008-sp1
- Microsoft Visual Studio: 2003-sp1, 2005-sp1, 2008, 2008-sp1
- Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: all versions
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008: all versions
- Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
- Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/08/11/ms09-037-why-we-are-using-cve-s-already-used-in-ms09-035.aspx
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00002.html
- 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://secunia.com/advisories/38568
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41818
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264648-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266108-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020775.1-1
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