Advisory Details

October 13th, 2015

Microsoft Office Visio UML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2015-2557
CVSS SCORE	6.8, AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Microsoft
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Office Visio
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION	Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['20632']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office Visio. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within UML parsing. By providing a malformed Visio file, an attacker is able to cause data to be written outside of a normal buffer. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code under the context of the Visio process.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-110
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-08-03 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2015-10-13 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	kdot

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