Microsoft Office up to 2016 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013/2013 RT/2016. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2016-3358. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013/2013 RT/2016 (Office Suite Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. 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 09/13/2016 by iDefense with iDEFENSE as MS16-107 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at technet.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-3358 since 03/15/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 93481 (MS16-107: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3185852)), 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 110283 (Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS16-107)).

Applying the patch MS16-107 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 (93481) and SecurityFocus (BID 92791†). The entries VDB-91541, VDB-91542, VDB-91543 and VDB-91545 are related to this item. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 93481
Nessus Name: MS16-107: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3185852)
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OpenVAS ID: 900248
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Windows Excel Viewer Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (3185852)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS16-107
Researcher: iDefense
Organization: iDEFENSE
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2016-3358 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-3358
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-91544
SecurityFocus: 92791 - Microsoft Office CVE-2016-3358 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1036785

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Created: 09/14/2016 17:06
Updated: 09/16/2022 10:08
Changes: 09/14/2016 17:06 (68), 04/16/2019 14:27 (13), 09/16/2022 10:08 (4)
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