Vulnerability in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-0109
Word in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, Office 2003 SP2, and Office Word Viewer 2003 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted fields within the File Information Block (FIB) of a Word file, which triggers length calculation errors and memory corruption.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.309 (98.2th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.309 · newest: 0.309 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2000, 2003, xp
- Microsoft Word
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-009 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/27656 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0511/references (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28901 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/692417 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488071/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-043C.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5073 (signature, vdb-entry)