Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document that triggers memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 2
- Microsoft Office XP SP3 - '.PPT' File Buffer Overflow (MS08-016) EDB-5320 · local · Mar 30, 2008 · verified
- Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/XP - File Memory Corruption EDB-31361 · dos · Mar 7, 2008 · verified
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References
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5190 vdb-entry signature
- 28146 vdb-entry
- TA08-071A third-party-advisory
- 29321 third-party-advisory
- MS08-016 vendor-advisory
- SSRT080028 vendor-advisory
- ADV-2008-0848 vdb-entry
- 1019578 vdb-entry