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Microsoft Word Smart Tag Invalid Length Processing Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA30975

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Release Date:

2008-07-09

Last Update:

2008-08-12

Popularity:

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Critical:

Extremely critical

Impact:

System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

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

Binary Analysis:

BA515 :: Available for 1 Credit

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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.

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