[PCWorks] Microsoft Office Visio Two Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

  • From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:19:35 -0500

TITLE:
Microsoft Office Visio Two Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Highly critical
Impact:  System access
Where:  From remote

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39381/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Visio, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the validation of certain attributes can be exploited
to corrupt memory.

2) An error when calculating certain indexes can be exploited to
corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of
arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted
Visio file.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Office Visio 2002 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2d563cbc-d8f7-486b-8c54-25d168085376

Microsoft Office Visio 2003 SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=803a7ea0-a9da-46dd-9548-0177d3774be7

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=56fe020f-4444-4a43-aa98-e99a622f6a69

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=56fe020f-4444-4a43-aa98-e99a622f6a69

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS10-028 (KB980094, KB979356, KB979364, KB979365)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-028.mspx


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