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Secunia Advisory SA29691

Microsoft Visio Two File Processing Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA29691
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Release Date 2008-04-08
   
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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
   
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 2003 Professional Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Visio 2002
Microsoft Visio 2003
Microsoft Visio 2007

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-1089 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1090 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Visio, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An error when processing object header data can be exploited via a specially crafted Visio file.

2) An error while validating memory allocations when loading AutoCAD drawing files can be exploited via a specially crafted .DXF file.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits an anonymous person.

Original Advisory
MS08-019 (KB949032):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-019.mspx

Alternate/detailed remediation
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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