Microsoft Word up to 2013 SP1 Office Document memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Microsoft Word 2007 SP3/2010 SP2/2011/2013 RT SP1/2013 SP1. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Office Document Handler. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2015-2379. There is not any exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Word 2007 SP3/2010 SP2/2011/2013 RT SP1/2013 SP1 (Word Processing Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Office Document Handler. 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. CVE summarizes:

Microsoft Word 2007 SP3, Office 2010 SP2, Word 2010 SP2, Word 2013 SP1, Word 2013 RT SP1, Office for Mac 2011, and Word Viewer allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Office document, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

The weakness was released 07/14/2015 (Website). The advisory is available at technet.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-2379 since 03/19/2015. 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.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 84740 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110257 (Microsoft Office Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS15-070)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 20185.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (84740), SecurityFocus (BID 75645†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-51207†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-76462, VDB-76463, VDB-76464 and VDB-76465. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 84740
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OpenVAS ID: 802074
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities-3072620 (Mac OS X)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: technet.microsoft.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2015-2379 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-2379
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-76466

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SecurityFocus: 75645
SecurityTracker: 1032899
Vulnerability Center: 51207 - [MS15-070] Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution due to Memory Corruption - CVE-2015-2379, Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/15/2015 13:52
Updated: 05/31/2022 14:50
Changes: 07/15/2015 13:52 (60), 07/12/2017 12:14 (6), 05/31/2022 14:50 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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