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>> Microsoft Office OneNote URL Code Execution (MS08-055)

Title : Microsoft Office OneNote URL Code Execution (MS08-055)
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2523
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3007
CWE ID : CWE-20
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-09-09


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A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Office, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an input validation error when a specially crafted uniform resource locator is passed to open a specially crafted OneNote file, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into clicking on specially crafted URL using the OneNote protocol handler (onenote://).

Affected Products

Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3
2007 Microsoft Office System
2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 1
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 Service Pack 1

Solution

Apply patches :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-055.mspx

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2523
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-055.mspx

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Brett Moore (Insomnia Security).

ChangeLog

2008-09-09 : Initial release

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