Microsoft Word Smart Tag Invalid Length Processing Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

Microsoft Word Smart Tag Invalid Length Processing Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory:	SA30975	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2008-07-09
Last Update:	2008-08-12
Popularity:	19,074 views

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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CVE reference:	CVE-2008-2244

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. Microsoft Word 2002 SP3: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=c7146dfc-e1be-4d13-877b-1d9bcacc4a64 Microsoft Word 2003 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=13a37b76-9fec-426f-8176-3c95f934efe0 Microsoft Word 2003 SP3: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=13a37b76-9fec-426f-8176-3c95f934efe0 Provided and/or discovered by: Reported as a 0-day. Changelog: 2008-08-12: Added additional details. Updated "Solution" section. Added Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Word 2003 as affected. 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

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