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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Office up to 2016 (Office Suite Software). This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input 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.

The weakness was shared 05/10/2016 with Microsoft as MS16-054 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared at technet.microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-0198 since 12/04/2015. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 91004 (MS16-054: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3155544)), 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 110272 (Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS16-054)).

Applying the patch MS16-054 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (91004). The entries 87146, 87147 and 87148 are related to this item.

Productinfo

Type

• Office Suite Software

Vendor

• Microsoft

Name

• Office

Version

• 2007
• 2010
• 2011
• 2013
• 2013 RT
• 2016

License

• commercial

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.7

VulDB Base Score: 8.1
VulDB Temp Score: 7.7
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 7.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 91004
Nessus Name: MS16-054: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3155544)
Nessus File: 🔍
Nessus Risk: 🔍
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OpenVAS ID: 63766
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Word Viewer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (3155544)
OpenVAS File: 🔍
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Patch: MS16-054

Timelineinfo

12/04/2015 🔍
05/10/2016 +158 days 🔍
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05/11/2016 +1 days 🔍
08/18/2022 +2290 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS16-054
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2016-0198 (🔍)
OVAL: 🔍

SecurityTracker: 1035819
SecurityFocus: 89962 - Microsoft Office CVE-2016-0198 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 05/11/2016 11:06
Updated: 08/18/2022 08:51
Changes: 05/11/2016 11:06 (68), 11/23/2018 10:52 (13), 08/18/2022 08:51 (4)
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