Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/Xp resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/Xp (Office Suite Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP2, and Office 2004 for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Office document that contains a malformed object, related to a "memory handling error," aka "Microsoft Office Execution Jump Vulnerability."

The bug was discovered 02/12/2008. The weakness was presented 02/12/2008 by Shaun Colley with NGSSoftware (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-0103 since 01/07/2008. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3172 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 31047 (MS08-013: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (947108)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110069 (Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS08-013)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (40078) and Tenable (31047). See 38706, 40995, 40996 and 41002 for similar entries.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 31047
Nessus Name: MS08-013: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (947108)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Shaun Colley
Organization: NGSSoftware
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-0103 (🔍)
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X-Force: 40078
SecurityTracker: 1019375
Vulnerability Center: 17617 - [MS08-013] Microsoft Office Allows Remote Attacker to Execute Code via Crafted Office File, Medium
SecurityFocus: 27738 - Microsoft Office Execution Jump Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 28909
OSVDB: 41462 - CVE-2008-0103 - MS08-013 - Microsoft - Office - Code Execution Issue
Vupen: ADV-2008-0515

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Created: 03/16/2015 13:43
Updated: 08/03/2019 19:59
Changes: 03/16/2015 13:43 (63), 08/03/2019 19:59 (19)
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