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Microsoft Office Object Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA28909  
Release Date: 2008-02-12

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

CVE reference:CVE-2008-0103 (Secunia mirror)

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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.

Solution:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Office 2000 SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=5FB74E24-D9EE-4951-9C46-E1C84617F097

Microsoft Office XP SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=3E147B1A-F3BE-465F-8587-7F3A33D6A6E5

Microsoft Office 2003 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=F4AC0F34-4604-4BBE-9669-01DB645041CA

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=36B00C58-192D-488C-A069-730C69F0B6B0

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Shaun Colley, NGSSoftware.

Original Advisory:
MS08-013 (KB947108):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-013.mspx

Extended Solution:
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