Advisory Details

March 12th, 2015

Microsoft Word Format Tag Transposition Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2015-0085
CVSS SCORE	6.8, AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Microsoft
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Office Word
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Word. 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 the parsing of the item1.xml file inside of the .docx package. By transposing elements, an attacker is able to cause a pointer to be re-used after it was freed. An attacker could leverage this to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS15-022
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2014-09-11 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2015-03-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	3S Labs

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