CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-1202
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Word (or Word Viewer) in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and Works Suite 2004, 2005, and 2006 does not properly parse certain rich text "property strings of certain control words," which allows user-assisted remote attackers to trigger heap corruption and execute arbitrary code, aka the "Word RTF Parsing Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft word 2000
• microsoft word 2002
• microsoft word 2003
• microsoft word 2004
• microsoft word viewer 2003
• microsoft works 2004
• microsoft works 2005
• microsoft works 2006
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=525 Patch
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555489 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/34388 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468871/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23836 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018013 Patch
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-128A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1709 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-024 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1900 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=525 Patch
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555489 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/34388 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468871/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23836 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018013 Patch
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-128A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1709 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-024 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1900 oval.cisecurity.org