National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4025
Original release date:12/10/2008
Last revised:03/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in 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 (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message containing an invalid number of points for a polyline or polygon, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-344A
Name: TA08-344A
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021370
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081209 Secunia Research: Microsoft Word RTF Polyline/Polygon Integer Overflow
External Source: MS
Name: MS08-072
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3384
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-21/
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5682