Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Office, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error when handling malformed Word documents, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.

Note: This vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.

Affected Products

Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3

Microsoft Word 2002 Service Pack 3
Microsoft Word 2003 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Word 2003 Service Pack 3

Solution

Apply patches :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-042.mspx

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2028
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/953635.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-042.mspx

Credits

Vulnerability reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2008-07-09 : Initial release

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