CVE-2009-0562

Microsoft Office Web Components - Remote Code Execution via Memory Allocation Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

The Office Web Components ActiveX Control in Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, Office XP Web Components SP3, Office 2003 Web Components SP3, Office 2003 Web Components SP1 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 SP3 and 2006 SP1, and Office Small Business Accounting 2006 does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger "system state" corruption, aka "Office Web Components Memory Allocation Vulnerability."

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-223A.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022708

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6337

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ms

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-043

Scores

EPSS 0.2565

EPSS Percentile 97.8%

Details

CWE

CWE-399

Status published

Products (8)

microsoft/isa_server 2004 sp3 (2 CPE variants)

microsoft/isa_server 2006 sp1 (2 CPE variants)

microsoft/office

microsoft/office 2003 sp3

microsoft/office xp sp3

microsoft/office_web_components 2000 sp3

microsoft/office_web_components 2003 sp1 (2 CPE variants)

microsoft/office_web_components xp sp3

Published Aug 12, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026