CVE-2008-4025

Microsoft Office Word - Remote Code Execution via RTF Polyline/Polygon Point Count Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Integer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Outlook 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message containing an invalid number of points for a polyline or polygon, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability."

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5682
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021370
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-21/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499054/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.3294
EPSS Percentile 98.2%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (11)
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office_outlook 2007 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office_word 2000 sp3
microsoft/office_word 2002 sp3
microsoft/office_word 2003 sp3
microsoft/office_word 2007
microsoft/office_word_viewer 2003 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/open_xml_file_format_converter
... and 1 more
Published Dec 10, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026