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Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (Jan 2023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 169968

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in .NET 6.0 where a malicious client could cause a stack overflow which may result in a denial of service attack when an attacker sends an invalid request to an exposed endpoint.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
 - Update 16.11.23 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 17.2.33 for Visual Studio 2022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c0965922

http://www.nessus.org/u?d0fc2f8a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169968

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_jan_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 1/12/2023

Updated: 9/7/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-21538

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible, SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Microsoft Visual Studio

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-21538

IAVA: 2023-A-0028-S