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Microsoft Office Word Document Handling Code Execution Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 10 Jul 2008 5099 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Office, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error when handling malformed Word documents, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
  • Microsoft Word 2002 Service Pack 3

Solutions

There is no patch available for this vulnerability currently.


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