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Synthesis of the vulnerability 
An attacker can invite the victim to open a malicious PDB file, to generate a memory corruption in msdia.dll of Microsoft DIA SDK, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to execute code.
 Vulnerable products: Visual Studio.
Severity of this weakness: 2/4.
Creation date: 21/05/2014.
Références of this bulletin: CVE-2014-3802, VIGILANCE-VUL-14778, ZDI-14-129.
Description of the vulnerability 
The Microsoft DIA SDK product can be installed with Visual Studio.
The debugger uses a file in PDB format. However, a malformed PDB file corrupts the msdia.dll memory.
An attacker can therefore invite the victim to open a malicious PDB file, to generate a memory corruption in msdia.dll of Microsoft DIA SDK, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to execute code.
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This computer threat alert impacts software or systems such as Visual Studio.
Our Vigil@nce team determined that the severity of this weakness announce is medium.
The trust level is of type confirmed by the editor, with an origin of document.
An attacker with a expert ability can exploit this computer weakness bulletin.
Solutions for this threat 
Microsoft Visual Studio: version 2013.
The version 2013 is fixed:
http://www.visualstudio.com/fr-fr/downloads
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