CVE-2008-4028

Microsoft Office - Remote Code Execution via Crafted RTF Drawing Object Tags

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 crafted control words related to multiple Drawing Object tags in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4030.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-085/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499063/100/0/threaded
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, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6096
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-085

Scores

EPSS 0.3806
EPSS Percentile 98.4%

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