RCE in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-1091
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file with a malformed string that triggers a "memory calculation error" and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Object Parsing Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
EPSS: 0.405 (98.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2000, 2003, 2004
- Microsoft Office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007
- Microsoft Word_viewer — versions 2003
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_HP, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)