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Microsoft Word Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA27151
Release Date: 2007-10-09
Popularity: 14,016 views

Critical:
Extremely critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Word 2002

Binary Analysis: BA248 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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 error in the handling of Word documents and can be exploited to corrupt memory when a user opens a specially crafted Office file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: According to Microsoft, this is currently being actively exploited.

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