Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (August 2018)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 111696

Synopsis

The Microsoft Office Products are missing a security update.

Description

The Microsoft Office Products are missing a security update.
It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability :

- An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Office software reads out of bound memory due to an uninitialized variable, which could disclose the contents of memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view out of bound memory. Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Office software. The security update addresses the vulnerability by properly initializing the affected variable. (CVE-2018-8378)

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
-KB4022198
-KB3213636
-KB4032239
-KB4032233

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ef5803a

http://www.nessus.org/u?93f05eca

http://www.nessus.org/u?374c2453

http://www.nessus.org/u?defec16d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 111696

File Name: smb_nt_ms18_aug_office.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 8/14/2018

Updated: 11/4/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8378

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8378

MSFT: MS18-3213636, MS18-4022198, MS18-4032233, MS18-4032239

MSKB: 3213636, 4022198, 4032233, 4032239