27150 : Microsoft Office MSO.DLL String Processing Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
6	778	over 5 years ago	12 months ago	3 times	90%

Timeline

Exploit Publish Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2006-02-12	2006-07-11	2006-07-11

Days of Exposure
149 days

Keywords

SYMSA-2006-007

Description

A local overflow exists in Office, Project, Visio and Office for Mac. MSO.DLL fails to validate Office documents resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted file containing a malformed string, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Patch / RCS
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Microsoft has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	Office	2003 SP1
		2003 SP2
		XP SP3
		2000 SP3
		2004 for Mac
		v. X for Mac
	Project	2002 SP1
	Project	2000 Service Release 1
	Visio	2002 SP2

References

Milw0rm: 1615
Exploit Database: 1615
Bugtraq ID: 17252 18889
CVE ID: 2006-1540 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 21012
SCIP VulDB ID: 2367
Related OSVDB ID: 27148 27149
ISS X-Force ID: 27607 27609
CERT VU: 609868
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 917284
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0120.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0141.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-07/0135.html
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS06-038
Keyword: SYMSA-2006-007

Tools & Filters

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Snort	7197 7198 7200 7201 7202 7203

Credit

Elia Florio - elia_floriosymantec.com - Symantec Corp.

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-03-31 | Disagree?

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