Secunia Advisory SA30975

Microsoft Word Smart Tag Invalid Length Processing Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA30975
Release Date 2008-07-09
Last Update 2008-08-12
   
Popularity 31,058 views
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Criticality level Extremely criticalExtremely critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
Secunia analysis Available in Customer Area
   
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 XP
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Word 2003

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-2244 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of smart tag length values, which can be exploited to cause memory corruption via a specially crafted document.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: According to the vendor, the vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported as a 0-day.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
MS08-042 (KB955048):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-042.mspx

Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/953635.mspx

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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