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Microsoft Word Three Code Execution Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24122  
Release Date: 2007-02-15
Last Update: 2007-05-09

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

CVE reference:CVE-2007-0035 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-0870 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-1202 (Secunia mirror)

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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 within the handling of data in arrays can be exploited via a specially crafted Word document.

2) An unspecified error when handling objects in Word Document streams can be exploited to cause memory corruption via a specially crafted Word document.

NOTE: This vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

3) An unspecified error when processing certain rich text (RTF) properties can be exploited to cause memory corruption via a specially crafted file.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code.

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Solution:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Word 2000 (Office SP3):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=F25020F5-17C7-4A60-9088-944FFACB5F19

Microsoft Word 2002 (Office SP3)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=0FE4F405-A568-4F15-B2C6-02D4A4B58E43

Microsoft Word 2003 (Office SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=6870245D-4618-4504-BFFC-878635267059

Microsoft Word Viewer 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=24547C65-C29A-4D0A-A015-F3F08B24331F

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac

Microsoft Works Suite 2004:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=0FE4F405-A568-4F15-B2C6-02D4A4B58E43

Microsoft Works Suite 2005:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=0FE4F405-A568-4F15-B2C6-02D4A4B58E43

Microsoft Works Suite 2006:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=0FE4F405-A568-4F15-B2C6-02D4A4B58E43

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Reported by the vendor.
2) Discovered as a 0-day.
3) Discovered by an anonymous person and reported via iDefense Labs.

Changelog:
2007-05-08: Added additional information from Microsoft. Updated "Solution" section.
2007-05-09: Added additional information from iDefense Labs. Added links to US-CERT.

Original Advisory:
MS07-024 (KB934232):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-024.mspx

Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/933052.mspx

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=525

Other References:
US-CERT VU#260777:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/260777

US-CERT VU#332404:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332404

US-CERT VU#555489:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555489



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