CVE-2023-36042 (GCVE-0-2023-36042)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-14 17:57
Modified
2025-10-08 23:59
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 Version: 17.6.0   < 17.6.10
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