MalDoc in PDF Attack: Hackers Hiding Malicious Word Files within PDFs

By Habiba Rashid Dubbed MalDoc in PDF attack by researchers, the new attack trend utilizes PDF and Word files to spread malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MalDoc in PDF Attack: Hackers Hiding Malicious Word Files within PDFs...

CVE-2017-6324

The Symantec Messaging Gateway, when processing a specific email attachment, can allow a malformed or corrupted Word file with a potentially malicious macro through despite the administrator having the 'disarm' functionality enabled. This constitutes a 'bypass' of the disarm functionality residen...

Microsoft Word 2000/2002 - Bulleted List Handling Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29769/info Microsoft Word is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this issue by enticing a victim to open and interact with malicious Word files. Successfully exploiting this issue...

Microsoft Jet Database Engine MDB File Parsing Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26468/info Microsoft Jet Database Engine is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied data. Remote attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary machine code ...