Home / bulletins MS10-031 - Critical: Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Could Allow Remote Code Execution (978213) - Version:1.0
Posted on 12 May 2010
There is an newer version: MS10-031 - Version: 1.1
CriticalSeverity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (May 11, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a host application opens and passes a specially crafted file to Visual Basic for Applications. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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- MS10-031 - Version: 1.0
- MS10-031 - Version: 1.1
