CVE-2008-4030

Microsoft Office Word Remote Code Execution via Crafted RTF Control Words

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; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted control words in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and memory corruption, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4028.

References (5)

Core 5
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%3A5737
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
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384

Scores

EPSS 0.2339
EPSS Percentile 97.6%

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