Home / bulletins MS07-004: Vulnerability in Vector Markup Language Could Allow Remote Code Execution (929969) - Version:1.2
Posted on 27 June 2007
Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: Bulletin updated to reflect that Windows Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 is an affected component, same as Windows Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. The vgx.dll version installed with Windows Internet Explorer 7 is a major-version higher than vgx.dll included in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 is not-affected by this vulnerability as released. Therefore, customers who install Windows Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 will also need to apply this security update.Summary: A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Vector Markup Language (VML) implementation in Microsoft Windows. This update resolves a public vulnerability as well as additional issues discovered through internal investigations. The vulnerability is documented in the "Vulnerability Details" section of this bulletin. 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.
