VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Word Document Heap Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2010-3218)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Word Document Heap Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2010-3218 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- Microsoft Office Word, included in the Microsoft Office suite, is a powerful authoring program that gives the ability to...

CVE-2010-3218

CVE-2010-3218 is a heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Word 2002 SP3 that allows remote code execution when a user opens a specially crafted Word document. Public details in the connected sources confirm a family of Word vulnerabilities addressed by MS10-079, with Word components affected acr...