CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4028
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Outlook 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted control words related to multiple Drawing Object tags in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4030.
Affected configurations
• microsoft office 2004
• microsoft office 2008
• microsoft office compatibility pack for word excel ppt 2007
• microsoft office word viewer 2003
• microsoft open xml file format converter
• microsoft works 8.0
• microsoft office outlook 2007
• microsoft office word 2000
• microsoft office word 2002
• microsoft office word 2003
• microsoft office word 2007
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499063/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021370 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-085 www.zerodayinitiative.com
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-085/ www.zerodayinitiative.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-072 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6096 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499063/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021370 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-085 www.zerodayinitiative.com
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-085/ www.zerodayinitiative.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-072 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6096 oval.cisecurity.org