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CVE-2008-2959

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CVE-2008-2959

Published: Jul 2, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

n/a

affected
n/a

References

5851
exploit
x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
29792
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
visualbasic-vb6skit-bo(43180)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF

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