MS Visual Studio RCE Vulnerability CVE-2023-28296
CVE-2023-28296 Published on April 11, 2023
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Weakness Type
What is a Double-free Vulnerability?
The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations. When a program calls free() twice with the same argument, the program's memory management data structures become corrupted. This corruption can cause the program to crash or, in some circumstances, cause two later calls to malloc() to return the same pointer. If malloc() returns the same value twice and the program later gives the attacker control over the data that is written into this doubly-allocated memory, the program becomes vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.
CVE-2023-28296 has been classified to as a Double-free vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-28296
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Affected Versions
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8):- Version 15.9.0 and below 15.9.54 is affected.
- Version 17.2.0 and below 17.2.15 is affected.
- Version 16.11.0 and below 16.11.26 is affected.
- Version 17.0.0 and below 17.0.21 is affected.
- Version 17.4.0 and below 17.4.7 is affected.
- Version 17.5.0 and below 17.5.4 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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