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HistoryAug 09, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

Microsoft Office Word RTF JPEG Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2016-08-0900:00:00
Arun Kumar Sharma
www.zerodayinitiative.com
52

EPSS

0.749

Percentile

98.2%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code 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 processing of a JPEG embedded within an RTF file. The issue lies in the failure to properly validate user-supplied data which can result in a write past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the current process.