Corel WordPerfect Document Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 11 Mar 2013 14:12 Release Date: 11 Mar 2013 3521 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Clients - Productivity Products

A vulnerability has been identified in Corel WordPerfect Office X6, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the wpwin16.dll module when processing WordPerfect documents and can be exploited to corrupt heap memory via a specially crafted WordPerfect document.

Impact

Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

Corel WordPerfect Office X6 16.x

Solutions

Note: Vulnerability has no patch available

Vulnerability Identifier

No CVE information is available

Source

Secunia
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