>> Microsoft Windows and Office RichEdit Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS07-013)
Title : Microsoft Windows and Office RichEdit Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS07-013) VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0582 CVE ID : CVE-2006-1311
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-02-13
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows and Office, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is due to a memory corruption error in the RichEdit components when parsing OLE objects embedded within RTF files, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by convincing a user to interact with a malformed embedded OLE object within a Rich Text Format (RTF) file.
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