CVE-2008-4027

Microsoft Office - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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
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