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Microsoft Word Two Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA30143
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Last Update: 2008-05-14
Popularity: 11,742 views

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 2007
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Microsoft Office Word 2007
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Word 2003
Microsoft Word Viewer 2003

Binary Analysis: BA474 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA475 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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

1) An error when parsing objects in rich text format (.rtf) files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow e.g. when a user opens a specially crafted .rtf file containing malformed strings with Word or previews a specially crafted e-mail containing malformed strings as rich text or HTML.

2) An error exists in the processing of cascading style sheets (CSS) values and can be exploited to corrupt memory when a specially crafted HTML file is opened using Word.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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