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QuarkXPress Word Document Text-Import Font Handling Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA25994
Release Date: 2007-07-11
Last Update: 2007-07-13
Popularity: 5,229 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:QuarkXPress 4.x
QuarkXPress 5.x
QuarkXPress 6.x
QuarkXPress 7.x

Binary Analysis: BA178 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Tan Chew Keong has discovered a vulnerability in QuarkXPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the MSWord text-import extension when handling font names. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long font name (more than 256 bytes).

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a user imports text from a malicious MSWord document using e.g. the "Rectangle Text Box" tool.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 7.2. Other versions may also be affected.

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