Title: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 VBP_Open Project File Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 is a development platform for building applications on Microsoft platforms.
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer. Specifically, the issue is related to 'VBP_Open' and occurs when the application processes a specially crafted VBP file.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application by supplying a malicious Visual Basic project ('.vbp') file. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial of service.
Affected Products:
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
References:
- Microsoft: Visual Basic Homepage
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