Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Vulnerability in WordPad and Office Text Converters Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975539)
Informations
Name MS09-073 First vendor Publication 2009-12-08
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2010-01-27
Severity (Vendor) Important Revision 2.1

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

Revision Note: V2.1 (January 27, 2010): Corrected erroneous entries in the Executive Summary, Update FAQ, and Vulnerability FAQ to clarify that the Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 (KB975008) and Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (KB975051) update packages do not apply to Microsoft Office Word but only to text converters used by other Microsoft Office applications in order to read Word files. This is an informational change only.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft WordPad and Microsoft Office text converters. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted Word 97 file is opened in WordPad or Microsoft Office Word. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same privileges as the user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer privileges on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative privileges.

Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-073.mspx

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5846
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5846
Title: WordPad and Office Text converter Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description: Integer overflow in the text converters in Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3; Works 8.5; Office Converter Pack; and WordPad in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DOC file with an invalid number of property names in the DocumentSummaryInformation stream, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-2506
Version: 9
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Word 2003
Microsoft Works 8.5
Microsoft Office Converter Pack
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 2
Application 1
Application 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-12-09 Name : WordPad and Office Text Converters Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (975539)
File : nvt/secpod_ms09-073.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
60834 Microsoft WordPad / Office Text Converters Word97 File Handling Memory Corrup...

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2009-12-10 IAVM : 2009-A-0128 - Microsoft WordPad and Office Text Converters Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0021551

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-10-10 Microsoft Windows WordPad and Office text converter integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 51473 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2019-10-10 Microsoft Windows WordPad and Office text converter integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 51472 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows WordPad and Office text converter integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 16314 - Revision : 11 - Type : FILE-OFFICE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-12-08 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through opening a Microsoft...
File : smb_nt_ms09-073.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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