Microsoft Visual Studio Flaw Lets Users Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information via Compiled PDB Files
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1040664 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1040664
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2018-1037
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Apr 10 2018
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Impact:
Disclosure of system information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 2010 SP1, 2012 Update 4, 2013 Update 5, 2015 Update 3, 2017, 2017 Version 15.7 Preview, 2017 Version 15.6.6
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Microsoft Visual Studio. A local user can obtain potentially sensitive information.
The application includes limited portions of uninitialized memory contents when compiling program database (PDB) files.
A user with access to the resulting PDB files can obtain potentially sensitive information from system memory.
Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A local user can obtain potentially sensitive information from memory on the target system.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix.
The Microsoft advisory is available at:
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-1037
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Vendor URL: portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-1037 (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error
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Underlying OS: Windows (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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