Microsoft Office 2007/2010 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Microsoft Office 2007/2010. This affects an unknown part. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2010-3337. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2007/2010 (Office Suite Software). It has been declared as very critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 and 2010 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, aka "Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability." NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2010-3141 and CVE-2010-3142.

The issue has been introduced in 01/30/2007. The weakness was published 11/09/2010 by TheLeader (Website). The advisory is shared for download at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability was named CVE-2010-3337 since 09/14/2010. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 09/29/2021).

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1379 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 50528 (MS10-087: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2423930)), 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 110102 (Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS10-087)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 10628.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (62789), Tenable (50528), SecurityFocus (BID 42628†), SecurityTracker (ID 1024705†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-28106†). Similar entries are available at VDB-55424, VDB-55419, VDB-55418 and VDB-55417. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
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Nessus ID: 50528
Nessus Name: MS10-087: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2423930)
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OpenVAS ID: 802136
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Windows Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability (2269637)
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01/30/2007 🔍
08/24/2010 +1302 days 🔍
09/14/2010 +21 days 🔍
11/09/2010 +56 days 🔍
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09/29/2021 +2385 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: TheLeader
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2010-3337 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-3337
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-55420

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X-Force: 62789
SecurityFocus: 42628 - Microsoft Office 'pptimpconv.dll' DLL Loading Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1024705 - Microsoft Office Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
Vulnerability Center: 28106 - [MS10-087] Microsoft Office Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2010-2923

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/19/2015 14:37
Updated: 09/29/2021 00:36
Changes: 03/19/2015 14:37 (68), 03/09/2017 08:01 (17), 09/29/2021 00:36 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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