Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (February 2024)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190548

Synopsis

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing security updates. They are, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including:

- A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the affected component to deny system or application services. (CVE-2024-21386, CVE-2024-21404)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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 17.4.16 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.6.12 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.8.7 for Visual Studio 2022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f56115c8

http://www.nessus.org/u?e9edc428

http://www.nessus.org/u?8beb8f3d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190548

File Name: smb_nt_ms24_feb_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 2/14/2024

Updated: 3/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21404

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21386, CVE-2024-21404

IAVA: 2024-A-0090-S