CVE-2008-0109

CVE-2008-0109 affects Word in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, Office 2003 SP2, and Word Viewer 2003. The root cause is a memory corruption in parsing certain fields in the File Information Block (FIB) of Word documents, triggered by crafted content, enabling remote code execution. Impact is fu...

Microsoft Word code execution vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Word contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Per Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-009:A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Word handles specially crafted Word files. The vulnerability could allow remote...

Microsoft Word File Handling Memory Corruption (MS08-009; CVE-2008-0109)

Microsoft Word is a popular word processor. By sending a specially crafted Word document, an attacker can cause a memory corruption, and remotely execute arbitrary code on the affected system...