60834 : Microsoft WordPad / Office Text Converters Word97 File Handling Memory Corruption
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Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2008-12-18	2008-12-19	2009-12-08	2009-12-08

Time to Patch	Time to Vendor Response
355 days	1 days

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-2506" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Integer overflow in the text converters in Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3; Works 8.5; Office Converter Pack; and WordPad in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DOC file with an invalid number of property names in the DocumentSummaryInformation stream, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Patch / RCS
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure

Solution

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

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2009-2506 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 37216
Secunia Advisory ID: 37580
OVAL ID: 5846
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 973904 974882 975008 975051 975539
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-12/0218.html
http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2009-December/002297.html
Other Advisory URL: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=834
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100070184
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS09-073
CERT: TA09-342A

Tools & Filters

	43065

Credit

Jun Mao - iDefense Labs
Sean Larsson - iDefense Labs

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-12-10 | Disagree?

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2009/12/09 00:59:33 | Microsoft Update Fixes IE, Windows, Office Bugs

from: PC World

Of the 12 flaws fixed in Tuesday's six security updates, seven were rated "critical," the highest severity ranking in Microsoft 's four-step scoring system. Four of the remaining flaws were pegged as "important," one step lower on the scale, while the

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