Microsoft Word Malformed Chart Code Execution Vulnerability
ZDI-06-034: October 10th, 2006CVE ID
Affected Vendors
Affected Products
Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office. Exploitation requires that the attacker coerce the target user into opening a malicious .XLS file.
The specific flaw exists during the processing of malformed charts embedded within a Word document. Upon closing the document, certain pointers are corrupted with data direclty from the file. A later dereference of these corrupted pointers can result in code execution.
Vendor Response
Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
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2006-06-14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2006-10-10 - Coordinated public release of advisory
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by:-
Arnaud Dovi 'class101' http://heapoverflow.com
