Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-4837
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; and Microsoft Works 8 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word document that contains a malformed table property, which triggers memory corruption, aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
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: 0.374 (98.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.374 · newest: 0.374 · change: 0.000
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
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-072 (vendor-advisory)
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-086/
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-086
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499064/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5982 (signature, vdb-entry)