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TITLE:
Microsoft Office Works File Converter Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35371

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35371/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Works for Windows
document converters when parsing Works files and can be exploited to
cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4bf95806-3d32-411b-9779-a81aebad45e9

Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b0ba8c9e-75ee-46bd-9e92-d4e6599309ad

Microsoft Office Word 2003 SP3 with the Microsoft Works 6–9 File
Converter:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a7ba3ea7-d06a-4c14-9107-9b92ef68fcae

Microsoft Office Word 2007 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bd47e1e5-cd2e-4c08-9864-471e97f38ca3

Microsoft Works 8.5:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=628280fe-e035-4274-85f2-393d9bad543c

Microsoft Works 9:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f6fa110e-45c6-450f-ae47-c89a06e3f762

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
* Shaun Colley, NGS Software.
* Yuji Ukai, Fourteenforty Research Institute, Inc.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS09-024 (KB957632, KB957646, KB957838, KB967043, KB967044, KB968326,
KB969559):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-024.mspx

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