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CVE-2009-2493 Detail

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."


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/08/11/ms09-037-why-we-are-using-cve-s-already-used-in-ms09-035.aspx CVE, Microsoft Corporation Broken Link 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00002.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126592505426855&w=2 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35967 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://secunia.com/advisories/36187 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://secunia.com/advisories/36374 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://secunia.com/advisories/36746 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://secunia.com/advisories/38568 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://secunia.com/advisories/41818 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264648-1 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266108-1 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020775.1-1 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Broken Link 
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-04.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-10.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-11.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-13.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7004997&sliceId=1 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2493.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-195A.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-223A.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286A.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-342A.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2034 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2232 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0366 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-035 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-037 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-055 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-060 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-072 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6245 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6304 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6421 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6473 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6621 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6716 CVE, Microsoft Corporation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-2493
NVD Published Date:
07/29/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Microsoft Corporation