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MS06-073: Vulnerability in Visual Studio 2005 could allow remote code execution

Article ID:925674
Last Review:October 11, 2007
Revision:3.5
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SUMMARY

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS06-073. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update. This information includes file manifest information and deployment options. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites:
Home users:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/bulletins/200612.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/bulletins/200612.mspx)
IT professionals:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-073.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-073.mspx)

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Know issues

When you have more than one Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 product installed, and you uninstall a previously installed update, the shared files are rolled back. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
929233 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929233/) When you have more than one Visual Studio 2005 product installed, and you uninstall an update for only one of the products, the shared files are rolled back to their earlier versions

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Command-line switches for this update

For more information about the command-line switches that are supported by this update, see Microsoft security bulletin MS06-073 at the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-073.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-073.mspx)
For more information about Microsoft Windows Installer command-line switches, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367988.aspx (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367988.aspx)
For more information about Windows Installer, visit the following MSDN Web site:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367449.aspx (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367449.aspx)

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers, when used with:
  Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
  Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4
  Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
  Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
  Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
  Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2
  Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002
  Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
  Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition
  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86)
  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition
  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86)
  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition
  Windows Vista Business
  Windows Vista Enterprise
  Windows Vista Home Basic
  Windows Vista Home Premium

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kbexpertiseinter kbqfe kbsecurity kbsecbulletin kbsecvulnerability kbbug kbfix kbpubtypekc KB925674

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