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Security Update for Visual Studio 2019 (May 2022) (macOS)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161121

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Synopsis

The remote host has an application installed that is missing a security update.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by denial of service vulnerability:

 - A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue to cause the application to stop responding. (CVE-2022-29145, CVE-2022-23267)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
 - Update 8.10.23.7 for Visual Studio 2019

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0d14ed97

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161121

File Name: macos_ms22_may_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 5/12/2022

Updated: 10/27/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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-2022-29145

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: installed_sw/Visual Studio, Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MacOSX/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23267, CVE-2022-29145

IAVA: 2022-A-0198