CVE-2008-4028

Description

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 crafted control words related to multiple Drawing Object tags in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4030.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6096

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-072

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-085/

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-085

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021370

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499063/100/0/threaded

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3