The vulnerability of the Microsoft Office software allows a malicious actor to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism.

Microsoft Office software has a vulnerability related to an error that occurs due to incorrect implementation of address space randomization ASLR during the execution of the MSCOMCTL control element library. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious individual to bypass the ASLR protection...

CVE-2014-1809

The MSCOMCTL library in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, and 2013 Gold, SP1, RT, and RT SP1 makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted web site, as exploited in the wild in May 2014, aka "MSCOMCTL ASLR Vulnerability."...

CVE-2014-1809

The CVE-2014-1809 entry affects the MSCOMCTL common controls library used by Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1/SP2, and 2013 Gold/SP1/RT/RT SP1. The root cause is improper ASLR handling in MSCOMCTL, enabling a remote attacker to bypass ASLR via a crafted web page, as reported and exploited in t...