Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-4028
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 crafted control words related to multiple Drawing Object tags in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4030.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.381 (98.5th 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_MISC)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- 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 (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MISC)