CVE-2010-3221

Microsoft Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, Office 2004 for Mac, and Word Viewer do not properly handle a malformed record during parsing of a Word document, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document that triggers memory corruption, aka "Word Parsing Vulnerability."

Score

CVSS 2.0 9.3 Critical

Status

Modified - secure@microsoft.com

Published

2010-10-13

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-94

Affected products

• Office (Microsoft)
• Word (Microsoft)
• Word Viewer (Microsoft)

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-079
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7032