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TITLE:
Microsoft Office Publisher Invalid Memory Reference Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25988

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25988/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
http://secunia.com/product/14162/
Microsoft Office 2007
http://secunia.com/product/13228/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Office Publisher 2007,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application not properly
validating memory values when writing application data from disk to
memory. This can be exploited by tricking a user into viewing a
specially crafted Publisher (.pub) page.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Office Publisher 2007:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=25D272E7-F2DD-4342-92BE-7EBC2E770B44

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits eEye.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS07-037 (KB936548):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-037.mspx

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