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Microsoft Word Document Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA12758
Release Date: 2004-10-07
Last Update: 2005-08-10
Popularity: 131,148 views

Critical:
Highly 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 XP
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Word 2003
Microsoft Word Viewer 2003
Microsoft Works Suite 2001
Microsoft Works Suite 2002
Microsoft Works Suite 2003
Microsoft Works Suite 2004

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the parsing of document files. This can be exploited to cause buffer overflows by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Word document.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Microsoft Word.

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