Microsoft KB Archive/925674

= MS06-073: Vulnerability in Visual Studio 2005 could allow remote code execution =

Article ID: 925674

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2007

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APPLIES TO

 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers, when used with:  Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

 Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4</li></ul>

 Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server</li></ul>

 Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server</li></ul>

 Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition</li></ul>

 Microsoft Windows XP Professional</li></ul>

 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition</li></ul>

 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002</li></ul>

 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86)</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86)</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86)</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Windows Vista Business</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Windows Vista Enterprise</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Windows Vista Home Basic</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Windows Vista Home Premium</li></ul> </li></ul>

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SUMMARY
Microsoft has released security bulletin MS06-073. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update. This information includes file manifest information and deployment options. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites: <ul> <li>Home users:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/bulletins/200612.mspx

</li> <li>IT professionals:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-073.mspx

</li></ul>

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Know issues
When you have more than one Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 product installed, and you uninstall a previously installed update, the shared files are rolled back. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

929233 When you have more than one Visual Studio 2005 product installed, and you uninstall an update for only one of the products, the shared files are rolled back to their earlier versions

Command-line switches for this update
For more information about the command-line switches that are supported by this update, see Microsoft security bulletin MS06-073 at the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-073.mspx

For more information about Microsoft Windows Installer command-line switches, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367988.aspx

For more information about Windows Installer, visit the following MSDN Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367449.aspx

Additional query words: security update patch bulletin Visual Studio VS 2005 VS2005 WMI WMIScriptUtils.dll flaw vulnerability malicious attacker exploit

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbsecvulnerability kbqfe kbsecurity kbsecbulletin kbpubtypekc kbexpertiseinter KB925674

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