Description
Absolute directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the VB To VSI Support Library (VBTOVSI.DLL) 1.0.0.0 in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the SaveAs method. NOTE: contents can be copied from local files via the Load method.
Public exploits
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Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - 'VBTOVSI.dll 1.0.0.0' File Overwrite EDB-4394 · remote · Sep 11, 2007 · verified
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References
- http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_qwFZc3a35RLy5AGxVBjJ.html
- visualstudio-vbtovsi-file-overwrite(36571) vdb-entry
- 4394 exploit
- 26779 third-party-advisory
- 25635 vdb-entry