Secunia Advisory SA28901

Microsoft Word File Information Block Memory Corruption
Secunia Advisory SA28901
Release Date 2008-02-12
Last Update 2008-02-14
   
Popularity 12,341 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
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
Secunia analysis Available in Customer Area
   
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 2003 Professional Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Word 2003

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-0109 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 calculation errors when processing the "File Information Block" section. This can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Word file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Rubén Santamarta, Reversemode.com.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
MS08-009 (KB947077):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-009.mspx

Reversemode:
http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_mamblog&Itemid=15&task=show&action=view&id=47&Itemid=15

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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