CVE-2008-4031
Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Outlook 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed string in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and memory corruption, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability."
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 9.3 Critical
- Status
- Modified - secure@microsoft.com
- Published
- 2008-12-10
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Affected products
- Office (Microsoft)
- Office Compatibility Pack For Word Excel Ppt 2007 (Microsoft)
- Office Outlook (Microsoft)
- Office Word (Microsoft)
- Office Word Viewer (Microsoft)
- Open Xml File Format Converter (Microsoft)
- Works (Microsoft)
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021370
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-072
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5952
