Microsoft Office 2007 Word File memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2007. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Word File Handler. The manipulation as part of Word File leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2013-3853. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2007 (Office Suite Software). It has been rated as very critical. This issue affects an unknown function 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. The summary by CVE is:

Microsoft Office 2007 SP3 and Word 2007 SP3 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," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-3854.

The issue has been introduced in 01/30/2007. The weakness was released 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 at technet.microsoft.com. The public release was coordinated with Microsoft. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2013-3853 since 06/03/2013. 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 price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/24/2021).

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2415 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (69832), SecurityFocus (BID 62217†), OSVDB (97125†), Secunia (SA54737†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-41461†). krebsonsecurity.com is providing further details. Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-10188, VDB-10189, VDB-10190 and VDB-10191. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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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 ID: 903401
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (2845537)
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Patch: MS13-072

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Sourcesinfo

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-2013-3853 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-3853
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-10241

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SecurityFocus: 62217 - Microsoft Word CVE-2013-3853 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 54737 - Microsoft Office Word Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 97125
Vulnerability Center: 41461 - [MS13-072] Microsoft Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - CVE-2013-3853, Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 09/11/2013 17:13
Updated: 05/24/2021 14:36
Changes: 09/11/2013 17:13 (92), 05/11/2017 08:39 (3), 05/24/2021 14:36 (2)
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Cache ID: 216:6FA:103

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