Microsoft Office 2010 SP2 Connectivity Engine memory corruption

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Microsoft Office 2010 SP2. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Connectivity Engine. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2019-0675. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Office 2010 SP2 (Office Suite Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Connectivity Engine. 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 bug was discovered 02/12/2019. The weakness was released 02/12/2019 as confirmed security update guide (Website). The advisory is available at portal.msrc.microsoft.com. The public release was coordinated with the vendor. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-0675 since 11/26/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The advisory points out:

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Office Access Connectivity Engine improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on a victim system.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110330 (Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps Security Update February 2019).

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 vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 106863†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-130777, VDB-130778, VDB-130785 and VDB-130821. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Office Suite Software

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• Microsoft

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• Office

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• 2010 SP2

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/

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