Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-4841 First vendor Publication 2008-12-10
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2019-02-26

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The WordPad Text Converter for Word 97 files in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) .doc, (2) .wri, or (3) .rtf Word 97 file that triggers memory corruption, as exploited in the wild in December 2008. NOTE: As of 20081210, it is unclear whether this vulnerability is related to a WordPad issue disclosed on 20080925 with a 2008-crash.doc.rar example, but there are insufficient details to be sure.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4841

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6050
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6050
Title: WordPad Word 97 Text Converter Stack Overflow Vulnerability
Description: The WordPad Text Converter for Word 97 files in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) .doc, (2) .wri, or (3) .rtf Word 97 file that triggers memory corruption, as exploited in the wild in December 2008. NOTE: As of 20081210, it is unclear whether this vulnerability is related to a WordPad issue disclosed on 20080925 with a 2008-crash.doc.rar example, but there are insufficient details to be sure.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-4841
 Version: 6
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
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Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

SAINT Exploits

Description Link
Microsoft WordPad Word 97 text converter XST buffer overflow More info here

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-12-12 Name : WordPad and Office Text Converter Memory Corruption Vulnerability (960477)
File : nvt/secpod_ms_wordpad_mult_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50567 Microsoft Windows WordPad Text Converter Unspecified Memory Corruption

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2009-04-16 IAVM : 2009-A-0032 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in WordPad and Office Text Converters
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0018752

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-06-19 Microsoft Office Word WordPerfect converter buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 31032 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-06-19 Microsoft Office Word WordPerfect converter buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 31031 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office WordPad and Office text converters integer underflow attempt
RuleID : 23557 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office WordPad and Office text converters integer underflow attempt
RuleID : 23556 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office WordPad and Office text converters integer underflow attempt
RuleID : 23356 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Word Converter XST structure buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 17406 - Revision : 10 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Word Converter XST structure buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 17405 - Revision : 11 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Word Converter XST structure buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 17404 - Revision : 13 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office WordPad and Office text converters integer underflow attempt
RuleID : 15469 - Revision : 17 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office WordPad and Office Text Converters PlcPcd aCP buffer overflo...
RuleID : 15467 - Revision : 17 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office WordPad WordPerfect 6.x converter buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 15466 - Revision : 13 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office WordPad and Office Text Converters XST parsing buffer overfl...
RuleID : 15455 - Revision : 9 - Type : FILE-OFFICE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-15 Name : It is possible to execute arbitrary code on the remote Windows host using a t...
File : smb_nt_ms09-010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31399
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32718
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.html
CONFIRM http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/960906.mspx
EXPLOIT-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6560
MISC http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2008-crash.doc.rar
MS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09...
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SECTRACK http://securitytracker.com/id?1021376
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/32997
SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4711
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3390
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1024

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