Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (October 2023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183020

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities:
- A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the affected component to deny system or application services. (CVE-2023-38171)

- The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly (CVE-2023-44487)

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
- Update 17.2.20 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.4.12 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.6.8 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.7.5 for Visual Studio 2022

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 183020

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_oct_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 10/13/2023

Updated: 2/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44487

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: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible, installed_sw/Microsoft Visual Studio, SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38171, CVE-2023-44487

IAVA: 2023-A-0542-S

IAVB: 2023-B-0083-S

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