CVE-2005-2127: Ati Catalyst Driver

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 63.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not intended for use within Internet Explorer, as originally demonstrated using the (1) DDS Library Shape Control (Msdds.dll) COM object, and other objects including (2) Blnmgrps.dll, (3) Ciodm.dll, (4) Comsvcs.dll, (5) Danim.dll, (6) Htmlmarq.ocx, (7) Mdt2dd.dll (as demonstrated using a heap corruption attack with uninitialized memory), (8) Mdt2qd.dll, (9) Mpg4ds32.ax, (10) Msadds32.ax, (11) Msb1esen.dll, (12) Msb1fren.dll, (13) Msb1geen.dll, (14) Msdtctm.dll, (15) Mshtml.dll, (16) Msoeacct.dll, (17) Msosvfbr.dll, (18) Mswcrun.dll, (19) Netshell.dll, (20) Ole2disp.dll, (21) Outllib.dll, (22) Psisdecd.dll, (23) Qdvd.dll, (24) Repodbc.dll, (25) Shdocvw.dll, (26) Shell32.dll, (27) Soa.dll, (28) Srchui.dll, (29) Stobject.dll, (30) Vdt70.dll, (31) Vmhelper.dll, and (32) Wbemads.dll, aka a variant of the "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption vulnerability."

Affected products

• Ati Catalyst Driver: any version
• Microsoft .NET Framework: version 1.1 only
• Microsoft Office: any version; version 2000 only; version xp only
• Microsoft Project: version 98 only; version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only
• Microsoft Visio: version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only
• Microsoft Visual Studio .net: version 2002 only; version 2003 only; version gold only

Published 2005-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.