CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2563
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-09-15
- 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-94
Description
The Word 97 text converter in the WordPad Text Converters in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2 does not properly parse malformed structures in Word 97 documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document containing an unspecified value that is used in a loop counter, aka "WordPad Word 97 Text Converter Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows server 2003
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=879 labs.idefense.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-067 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6632 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=879 labs.idefense.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-067 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6632 oval.cisecurity.org