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TITLE:
Microsoft Word Unspecified Code Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30975

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Extremely critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office XP
http://secunia.com/product/23/
Microsoft Word 2002
http://secunia.com/product/2150/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be
exploited to cause memory corruption via a specially crafted
document.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: According to the vendor, the vulnerability is currently being
actively exploited.

The vulnerability is reported in Microsoft Word 2002 SP3 and is
currently not believed to affect other versions.

SOLUTION:
The vendor suggests viewing Word documents in Microsoft Office Word
2003 Viewer or Microsoft Office Word 2003 Viewer SP3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported as a 0-day.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/953635.mspx

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