[PCWorks] Microsoft Office Word Multiple Vulnerabilities
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:45:20 -0500
TITLE:
Microsoft Office Word Multiple Vulnerabilities
Criticality level: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
http://secunia.com/advisories/40937/
DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Office
Word,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's
system.
1) An unspecified error when parsing records can be exploited
to
corrupt memory via a specially crafted Word file.
2) An error when handling certain properties of rich text data
can be
exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted RTF file.
3) An error when parsing certain properties of rich text data
can be
exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted
RTF
file.
4) An error when handling HTML linked objects can be exploited
to
corrupt memory via a specially crafted Word file.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution
of
arbitrary code.
SOLUTION:
Apply patches.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS10-056 (KB2092914, KB2251389, KB2251399, KB2251419,
KB2251437,
KB2269638, KB2277947, KB2284162, KB2284171, KB2284179):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-056.mspx
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