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Microsoft Outlook / Word Object Tag Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA12041

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Release Date:

2004-07-12

Last Update:

2005-08-22

Popularity:

26,701 views

Critical:

Moderately critical

Impact:

System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Unpatched

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 Outlook 2000
Microsoft Outlook 2003
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Works Suite 2003

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Description:
James C. Slora has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Word and Outlook, potentially allowing malicious people to gain system access.

The problem arises when Word is used to edit mails in Outlook. This can possibly be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a user's system if the user is tricked into forwarding a malicious email with an unclosed "<OBJECT>" tag. Reportedly, this can only be exploited when mails are forwarded.

This may also be possible to exploit through malicious HTML documents if edited in Word.

This issue may be related to:
SA9580

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