Microsoft Office up to Xp resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office up to Xp (Office Suite Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is 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. CVE summarizes:

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document with a large number of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) selectors, related to a "memory handling error" that triggers memory corruption.

The bug was discovered 05/13/2008. The weakness was released 05/13/2008 by iDefense Labs with iDEFENSE Labs (Website). The advisory is available at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-1434 since 03/21/2008. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3263 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 50057 (MS08-026: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (951207) (Mac OS X)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110080 (Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS08-026)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. 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 6101.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (42101) and Tenable (50057). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 3700, 3701, 39749 and 42328.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 50057
Nessus Name: MS08-026: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (951207) (Mac OS X)
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: iDefense Labs
Organization: iDEFENSE Labs
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-1434 (🔍)
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X-Force: 42101
SecurityTracker: 1020014
Vulnerability Center: 18370 - [MS08-026] Microsoft Word CSS Handling Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution via Word File, Critical
SecurityFocus: 29105 - Microsoft Word CSS Handling Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 30143
OSVDB: 45032 - CVE-2008-1434 - MS08-026 - Microsoft - Word - Code Execution Issue
Vupen: ADV-2008-1504

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Created: 03/16/2015 17:00
Updated: 08/10/2019 09:56
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (77), 08/10/2019 09:56 (12)
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