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Secunia Advisory SA11199

Microsoft Visual C++ Constructed ISAPI Extensions Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory SA11199
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2004-03-24
   
Popularity 14,289 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.x
Microsoft Visual Studio 6 Enterprise
Microsoft Visual Studio 6 Professional

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Visual C++, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial-of-Service) on certain applications.

ISAPI (Internet Server Application Programming Interface) extensions built with the MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) static library may be vulnerable to DoS attacks.

The problem is that the MFC ISAPI code may produce invalid arguments under heavy load when processing data from POST requests. This may cause access violations.

The following products are affected:
* Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
* Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0


Solution
The vulnerability has been fixed in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6, which will be available at:
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