CVE-2009-2506

Summary

CVECVE-2009-2506
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-12-09 18:30:00 UTC
Updated2019-02-26 14:04:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the text converters in Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3; Works 8.5; Office Converter Pack; and WordPad in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DOC file with an invalid number of property names in the DocumentSummaryInformation stream, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Office Converter Pack All All All All
Application Microsoft Office Converter Pack All All All All
Application Microsoft Office Word 2002 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Office Word 2003 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Office Word 2002 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Office Word 2003 sp3 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 All sp4 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 All sp4 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2003 All sp2 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2003 All sp2 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp2 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp2 x64 All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp3 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp2 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp2 x64 All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Wordpad All All All All
Application Microsoft Wordpad All All All All
Application Microsoft Works 8.5 All All All
Application Microsoft Works 8.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-073 - Important | Microsoft Docs MS docs.microsoft.com
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-342A -- Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
20091208 Microsoft WordPad Word97 Converter Integer Overflow Vulnerability IDEFENSE labs.idefense.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
ASA-2009-566 (975539) CONFIRM support.avaya.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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