Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose information on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office Word. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
The specific flaw exists within the handling of a OneTableDocumentStream chunk during the processing of a specially crafted doc file. A data point value is used to calculate a size variable which can be underflowed before a heap allocation. During further processing, the allocated chunk is used as a source buffer during a memcpy operation leading to an out-of-bounds read condition. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.
Affected Vendors:
Microsoft
Affected Products:
Office Word
Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: <https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2016-7290>