Description: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Office Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) A boundary error when parsing invalid length fields in certain records can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted Word document.
2) Another boundary error when parsing certain records can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted Word document.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.
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