CVE-2018-8232Medium

Microsoft security update for CVE-2018-8232 — Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

Published
July 10, 2018
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products2

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.5

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update

1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
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🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2018-8232

EchelonGraph score
7.8 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

A Tampering vulnerability exists when Microsoft Macro Assembler improperly validates code, aka "Microsoft Macro Assembler Tampering Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Visual Studio.

Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2018-8232, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)