The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold, and Visual C++ 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1; and Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2; does not prevent VariantClear calls on an uninitialized VARIANT, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed stream to an ATL (1) component or (2) control, related to ATL headers and error handling, aka "ATL Uninitialized Object Vulnerability."
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2009-07-29T17:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2026-05-27T15:34:23.416Z
Reserved: 2009-03-14T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2009-0901
Updated: 2024-08-07T04:48:52.691Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2009-07-29T17:30:00.953
Modified: 2026-05-27T17:16:16.387
Link: CVE-2009-0901
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