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Secunia Advisory SA23671

Microsoft Office Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA23671
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Release Date 2007-01-09
   
Popularity 19,276 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Microsoft Access 2003
Microsoft Excel 2003
Microsoft Frontpage 2003
Microsoft InfoPath 2003
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
Microsoft OneNote 2003
Microsoft Outlook 2003
Microsoft Powerpoint 2003
Microsoft Publisher 2003
Microsoft Visio 2003
Microsoft Word 2003

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-5574 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Office, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Brazilian Portuguese grammar checker and can be exploited to corrupt memory by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Office document.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory
MS07-001 (KB921585):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-001.mspx

Deep Links
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