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Microsoft Word Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory:	SA23232	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2006-12-06
Last Update:	2007-02-13
Popularity:	47,556 views

Critical:	Extremely critical
Impact:	System access
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	Microsoft Office 2000 Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Microsoft Office XP Microsoft Word 2000 Microsoft Word 2002 Microsoft Word 2003 Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 Microsoft Works Suite 2004 Microsoft Works Suite 2005 Microsoft Works Suite 2006

Binary Analysis:	BA21 :: Available for 1 Credit BA40 :: Available for 1 Credit

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CVE reference:	CVE-2006-5994 CVE-2006-6561 CVE-2007-0208 CVE-2007-0209

Description: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1) An unspecified error in the handling of certain strings in Word documents can be exploited to cause a memory corruption via a specially crafted string. NOTE: According to Microsoft, this vulnerability is already being actively exploited on a limited scale. 2) An error within the processing of counts in Word documents can be exploited to somewhat control the destination address of a memmove() call by manipulating a certain DWORD in the document used for calculating the destination address. 3) An error within the handling of macros in Word documents can be exploited to automatically execute a macro by manipulating certain properties in a Word document. 4) An error within the processing of drawing objects can be exploited to cause a memory corruption via a Word document containing a specially crafted drawing object. Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code. Solution: Apply patches. Microsoft Word 2000 (with Office 2000 SP3): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=F1E61E6A-BE3D-4536-AF76-A11D5CE67199 Microsoft Word 2002 (with Office XP SP3): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=A1CA8DD7-0622-4D66-A85F-A6586545EF9D Microsoft Word 2003 (with Office 2003 SP2): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=882F8503-DA72-43C9-B556-A002EC58F289 Microsoft Word Viewer 2003: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=FB59798B-AFE2-4103-9991-CBDD7686F9AD Microsoft Works Suite 2004: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=A1CA8DD7-0622-4D66-A85F-A6586545EF9D Microsoft Works Suite 2005: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=A1CA8DD7-0622-4D66-A85F-A6586545EF9D Microsoft Works Suite 2006: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=A1CA8DD7-0622-4D66-A85F-A6586545EF9D Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ Provided and/or discovered by: 1) Discovered as a 0-day. 2) disco 3) The vendor credits USAA. 4) Reported by the vendor. Changelog: 2006-12-14: Added information about PoC possibly being available for this vulnerability. 2006-12-15: Added link to US-CERT. 2006-12-17: Divided advisory into two separate vulnerabilities. 2007-02-13: Added additional information from Microsoft. Updated "Solution" section. Original Advisory: MS07-014 (KB929434): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-014.mspx Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive...-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive...rrent-word-vulnerability-reports.aspx milw0rm: http://milw0rm.com/exploits/2922 Other References: US-CERT VU#167928: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928 US-CERT VU#996892: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/996892

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