RCE in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-4024
Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a crafted lcbPlcfBkfSdt field in the File Information Block (FIB), which bypasses an initialization step and triggers an "arbitrary free," aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
EPSS: 0.289 (98.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008, 2000
- Microsoft Office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007
- Microsoft Office_outlook — versions 2007
- Microsoft Office_system — versions sp1
- Microsoft Office_word — versions 2000, 2002, 2003
- Microsoft Office_word_viewer — versions 2003
- Microsoft Open_xml_file_format_converter
- Microsoft Works — versions 8.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MISC)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MISC)