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CVE-2009-2495

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2009-07-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1, and Visual C++ 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1 does not properly enforce string termination, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control that triggers a buffer over-read, related to ATL headers and buffer allocation, aka "ATL Null String Vulnerability."

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Visual StudioMicrosoft Visual C\+\+Microsoft Visual Studio .Net

Weakness Type

CWE-200, CWE-126

References