Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-4025
Integer overflow in 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 (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message containing an invalid number of points for a polyline or polygon, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.329 (98.2th 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 (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- 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, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)