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Microsoft Windows Vector Markup Language Buffer Overflow

More on the patch Tuesday hit parade.

From Secunia:

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in the Vector Markup Language (VML) implementation and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via e.g. a specially crafted web page or HTML e-mail.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: According to Microsoft, the vulnerability is being actively exploited.

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[tags]Microsoft, Windows Vector, Buffer Overflow, Vulnerability[/tags]

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