---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hardcore Disassembler / Reverse Engineer Reversing must be a passion as your skills will be challenged on a daily basis and you will be working several hours everyday in IDA, Ollydbg, and with BinDiff. Often, it is also required that you write a PoC or even a working exploit to prove that an issue is exploitable. http://secunia.com/hardcore_disassembler_and_reverse_engineer/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Microsoft Office String and Property Parsing Vulnerabilities SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA21012 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/21012/ CRITICAL: Highly critical IMPACT: System access WHERE: >From remote SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word 2003 Viewer http://secunia.com/product/5523/ Microsoft Word 2003 http://secunia.com/product/4908/ Microsoft Word 2002 http://secunia.com/product/2150/ Microsoft Word 2000 http://secunia.com/product/2149/ Microsoft Visio 2003 http://secunia.com/product/1092/ Microsoft Visio 2002 http://secunia.com/product/1091/ Microsoft Publisher 2003 http://secunia.com/product/10986/ Microsoft Access 2000 http://secunia.com/product/36/ Microsoft Access 2002 http://secunia.com/product/35/ Microsoft Access 2003 http://secunia.com/product/4904/ Microsoft Excel 2000 http://secunia.com/product/3054/ Microsoft Excel 2002 http://secunia.com/product/4043/ Microsoft Excel 2003 http://secunia.com/product/4970/ Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003 http://secunia.com/product/7700/ Microsoft Frontpage 2000 http://secunia.com/product/27/ Microsoft Frontpage 2002 http://secunia.com/product/26/ Microsoft Frontpage 2003 http://secunia.com/product/6997/ Microsoft InfoPath 2003 http://secunia.com/product/6463/ Microsoft Office 2000 http://secunia.com/product/24/ Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition http://secunia.com/product/2276/ Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition http://secunia.com/product/2277/ Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition http://secunia.com/product/2275/ Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition http://secunia.com/product/2278/ Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac http://secunia.com/product/8713/ Microsoft Office X for Mac http://secunia.com/product/2610/ Microsoft Office XP http://secunia.com/product/23/ Microsoft OneNote 2003 http://secunia.com/product/7140/ Microsoft Outlook 2000 http://secunia.com/product/33/ Microsoft Outlook 2002 http://secunia.com/product/34/ Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://secunia.com/product/3292/ Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 http://secunia.com/product/3052/ Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 http://secunia.com/product/2223/ Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 http://secunia.com/product/10985/ Microsoft Project 2000 http://secunia.com/product/158/ Microsoft Project 2002 http://secunia.com/product/157/ Microsoft Project 2003 http://secunia.com/product/3170/ Microsoft Publisher 2000 http://secunia.com/product/29/ Microsoft Publisher 2002 http://secunia.com/product/30/ DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Office, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1) An error within the string parsing can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow when a malicious Office document containing a malformed string is opened. 2) Another error within the string parsing can also be exploited to corrupt memory when a malicious Office document containing a malformed string is opened. 3) An error within the property handling can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow when a malicious Office document containing a malformed property is opened. Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Apply patches. Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 / SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B11AC6B-4A78-4A7B-995F-94738CAFE27F Microsoft Office XP SP3: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=266C287E-A773-4D9C-9736-EEAFB34FF893 Microsoft Office 2000 SP3: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=776FF379-0B9D-45D5-8B3C-CF9A4BD25DAE Microsoft Project 2002 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BF9CBFA6-5E91-4AA8-82C1-4C9A92A5B954 Microsoft Visio 2002 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9F67D75A-B69D-4064-942C-F5515C920E6B Microsoft Project 2000 SR1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5C28E38A-F323-4006-BEED-A00840CAFBCE PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: 1) Reported by the vendor. 2) posidron (the vendor also credits Elia Florio, Symantec). 3) Reported by the vendor. 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