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Microsoft Word Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory:

SA23232

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Release Date:

2006-12-06

Last Update:

2007-02-13

Popularity:

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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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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.

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