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Microsoft Office Word Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA30285
Release Date: 2008-12-09
Last Update: 2009-01-14
Popularity: 15,348 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 Word Viewer
Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter for Mac
Microsoft Outlook 2007
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Word 2003
Microsoft Works 8.x

Binary Analysis: BA479 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA627 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA638 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA636 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA634 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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

1) An error when processing List File Override (LFO) entries can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Word file.

2) An integer overflow error exists when calculating the space required for the specified number of points in a polyline or polygon. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow during parsing of objects in Rich Text Format (.rtf) files e.g. when a user opens a specially crafted .rtf file with Word or previews a specially crafted e-mail.

3) An unspecified error when parsing certain records can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Word file.

4) An error exists when processing consecutive "\do" drawing object tags encountered in RTF documents. This can be exploited to free a heap buffer twice and corrupt memory.

5) An error when processing mismatched "\dpgroup" and "\dpendgroup" controlwords can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via an RTF document containing an overly large number of "\dpendgroup" tags.

6) A boundary error when parsing RTF documents containing multiple drawing object tags can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

7) A boundary error when processing RTF documents can be exploited to overflow a static buffer via a document containing an overly large number of "\stylesheet" control words.

8) An error when processing a malformed table property can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted Word document.

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

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