Security Update for Visual Studio 2019 (June 2021) (macOS)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150988

Synopsis

The remote host has an application installed that is affected by DoS vulnerability.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 runtime installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability. When a .NET application utilizing libgdiplus on a non-Windows system accepts input, an attacker could send a specially crafted request that could result in application crashes.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version

Solution

Upgrade to Visual Studio 2019 version 8.10.0.1773 or later.

See Also

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24112

http://www.nessus.org/u?ffcc8699

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150988

File Name: macosx_ms21_jun_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 6/24/2021

Updated: 12/12/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-31957

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:visual_studio

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MacOSX/Version, installed_sw/Visual Studio

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-31957

IAVA: 2021-A-0278-S