Heads up folks!!! There are reports of attack incidents exploiting a vulnerability found in WMIObjectBroker Activex control which is part of Visual Studio 2005.

“The WMIObjectBroker ActiveX component is part of Visual Studio 2005 and associated with the WmiScriptUtils.dll. So you are only vulnerable if you find WmiScriptUtil.dll on your system. Also, by default this ActiveX component is not activated by default. For more details about this vulnerability see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/927709.mspx

Users with vulnerable machines are advised to apply the workaround provided by the software vendor until a security patch is released.

For more information regarding this report, you may visit the following:

• www.microsoft.com
  
• secunia.com
  
• www.kb.cert.org
  
• isc.sans.org
  
• sunbeltblog.blogspot.com
  
• www.cve.mitre.org