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Secunia Research: Microsoft Word RTF Polyline/Polygon Integer Overflow

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                 Secunia Research 09/12/2008

    - Microsoft Word RTF Polyline/Polygon Integer Overflow -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software…1
Severity…2
Vendor's Description of Software…3
Description of Vulnerability…4
Solution…5
Time Table…6
Credits…7
References…8
About Secunia…9
Verification…10

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1) Affected Software

  • Microsoft Office Word 2003 SP3
  • Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003 SP3

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where: Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"Office Word … provides editing and reviewing tools that help you
create professional documents more easily than ever before."

Product Link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/default.aspx

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Office
Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error when
calculating the space required for the specified number of points in
a polyline or polygon. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow during parsing of objects in Rich Text Format (.rtf)
files e.g. when a user opens a specially crafted .rtf file with Word
or previews a specially crafted e-mail.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution

Apply patches from MS08-072.

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6) Time Table

16/05/2008 - Vendor notified.
16/05/2008 - Vendor response.
03/07/2008 - Vendor provides status update.
15/08/2008 - Status update requested from vendor.
15/08/2008 - Vendor provides status update.
30/09/2008 - Vendor provides status update.
09/12/2008 - Vendor acknowledges that fix will be issued today.
09/12/2008 - Vendor publishes security bulletin.
09/12/2008 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2008-4025 for the vulnerability.

MS08-072 (KB957173):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-072.mspx

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9) About Secunia

Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate
customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence
relevant to their specific system configuration:

http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/

Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory
database as a service to the security community and private
individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security.

http://secunia.com/advisories/

Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to
do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the
security and reliability of software in general:

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below
to see currently vacant positions:

http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/

Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories:

http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-21/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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