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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4031
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-4031

Description:
Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Outlook 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed string in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and memory corruption, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability."

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

ST
  1021370

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5952

MS
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-072.mspx

CERT
  http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html


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