Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 Word File memory corruption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 (Office Suite Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Word File Handler. The manipulation as part of a Word File leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Microsoft Word 2003 SP3 and Word Viewer allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Office document, aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

The weakness was shared 09/10/2013 by Mateusz Jurczyk, Ben Hawkes and Ivan Fratric with Google Security Team as MS13-072 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at technet.microsoft.com. The vendor cooperated in the coordination of the public release. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-3856 since 06/03/2013. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 05/24/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 69832 (MS13-072: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2845537)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110216 (Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS13-072)).

Applying the patch MS13-072 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at technet.microsoft.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 13185.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (69832). krebsonsecurity.com is providing further details. The entries 10188, 10189, 10190 and 10191 are related to this item.

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Class: Memory corruption
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Nessus ID: 69832
Nessus Name: MS13-072: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2845537)
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OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (2845537)
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS13-072
Researcher: Mateusz Jurczyk, Ben Hawkes, Ivan Fratric
Organization: Google Security Team
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-3856 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 41464 - [MS13-072] Microsoft Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - CVE-2013-3856, Critical
SecurityFocus: 62223 - Microsoft Word CVE-2013-3856 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 54737 - Microsoft Office Word Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
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Created: 09/11/2013 17:16
Updated: 05/24/2021 14:42
Changes: 09/11/2013 17:16 (94), 05/11/2017 08:39 (2), 05/24/2021 14:42 (2)
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