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Secunia Advisory SA23950

Microsoft Word Malformed Function Memory Corruption
Secunia Advisory SA23950
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Release Date 2007-01-26
Last Update 2007-02-13
   
Popularity 42,278 views
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Criticality level Extremely criticalExtremely 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
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Word 2000

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-0515 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when parsing malformed functions. This can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted function in a Word document.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: The vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Discovered as a 0-day.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
MS07-014 (KB929434):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-014.mspx

Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/932114.mspx
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2007/01/26/microsoft-security-advisory-932114-posted.aspx

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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