Microsoft Office OWC10 ActiveX Control Loading and Unloading Heap Corruption Vulnerability
ZDI-09-055: August 11th, 2009CVE ID
Affected Vendors
Affected Products
TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection
TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 8299. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page.
The specific flaw exists when loading and unloading the vulnerable control (0002E543-0000-0000-C000-000000000046) and results in transfer of control to unallocated memory. This issue can be exploited to execute arbitrary code under the context of the currently logged in user user.
Vendor Response
Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
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2007-03-29 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2009-08-11 - Coordinated public release of advisory
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by:-
Peter Vreugdenhil
