Description
Double free vulnerability 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; and Office 2004 for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) RTF file or (2) rich text e-mail message with multiple consecutive Drawing Object ("\do") tags, which triggers a "memory calculation error" and memory corruption, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability."
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ms
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-072
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-084
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6098
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
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-084/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499062/100/0/threaded
Scores
EPSS
0.3391
EPSS Percentile
98.2%
Details
CWE
CWE-399
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