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Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (June 2021)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150418

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing a security update.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing a security update. They are, therefore, affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability due to improper handling of client connections. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue to cause the applications to stop responding.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
 - Update 16.4.23 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 16.7.16 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 16.9.7 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 16.10.1 for Visual Studio 2019

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?83268e80

http://www.nessus.org/u?30138c7e

http://www.nessus.org/u?9497ffd6

http://www.nessus.org/u?db72b947

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150418

File Name: smb_nt_ms21_june_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 6/9/2021

Updated: 12/27/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-31957

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:visual_studio

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible, installed_sw/Microsoft Visual Studio

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-31957

IAVA: 2021-A-0278-S