CVE-2007-4254: Microsoft Visual Database Tools Database Designer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 11.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control in VDT70.DLL in Microsoft Visual Database Tools Database Designer 7.0 for Microsoft Visual Studio 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the NotSafe method. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2007-2885 or CVE-2005-2127.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Database Tools Database Designer: version 7.0 only
• Microsoft Visual Studio: version 6.0 only

Published 2007-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.