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>> Microsoft Office Filters Command Execution Vulnerabilities (MS08-044)

Title : Microsoft Office Filters Command Execution Vulnerabilities (MS08-044)
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2348
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3018 - CVE-2008-3019 - CVE-2008-3020 - CVE-2008-3021 - CVE-2008-3460
CWE ID : CWE-20
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-12


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Microsoft Office, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by memory corruption errors when processing specially crafted Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and PICT, BMP, or WordPerfect Graphics (WPG) images, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious Office file.

Affected Products

Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3
Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office Project 2002 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Office Converter Pack
Microsoft Works 8

Solution

Apply patches :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-044.mspx

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2348
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-044.mspx

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Shaun Colley (NGS Software), Damian Put, ZDI, and iDefense VCP.

ChangeLog

2008-08-12 : Initial release

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