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Microsoft Office Object Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA28909

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Release Date:

2008-02-12

Popularity:

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Critical:

Highly 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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a memory handling error when processing objects embedded in documents and can be exploited to corrupt memory via a document containing a specially crafted object.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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