TITLE: Microsoft Office Object Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA28909 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/28909/ CRITICAL: Highly critical IMPACT: System access WHERE: From remote SOFTWARE: Microsoft Office 2000 http://secunia.com/product/24/ Microsoft Office XP http://secunia.com/product/23/ Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition http://secunia.com/product/2276/ Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition http://secunia.com/product/2277/ Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition http://secunia.com/product/2275/ Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition http://secunia.com/product/2278/ Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac http://secunia.com/product/8713/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Office, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a memory handling error when processing objects embedded in documents and can be exploited to corrupt memory via a document containing a specially crafted object. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Apply patches. Microsoft Office 2000 SP3: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5FB74E24-D9EE-4951-9C46-E1C84617F097 Microsoft Office XP SP3: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3E147B1A-F3BE-465F-8587-7F3A33D6A6E5 Microsoft Office 2003 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F4AC0F34-4604-4BBE-9669-01DB645041CA Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=36B00C58-192D-488C-A069-730C69F0B6B0 ORIGINAL ADVISORY: MS08-013 (KB947108): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-013.mspx ========================= The list's FAQ's can be seen by sending an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with FAQ in the subject line. To unsubscribe, subscribe, set Digest or Vacation to on or off, go to //www.freelists.org/list/pcworks . You can also send an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with Unsubscribe in the subject line. Your member list settings can be found at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi/l=pcworks . Once logged in, you have access to numerous other email options. The list archives are located at //www.freelists.org/archives/pcworks/ . All email posted to the list will be placed there in the event anyone needs to look for previous posts.
