National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0515
Original release date:01/26/2007
Last revised:04/12/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on Word 2000, and cause a denial of service on Word 2003, via unknown attack vectors that trigger memory corruption, as exploited by Trojan.Mdropper.W and later by Trojan.Mdropper.X, a different issue than CVE-2006-6456, CVE-2006-5994, and CVE-2006-6561.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-044A
Name: TA07-044A
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#412225
Name: VU#412225
External Source: XF
Name: word-document-code-execution(31834)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0350
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-013010-5422-99&tabid=2
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/new_microsoft_word_2000_vulner.html
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/multiple_organizations_targett.html
External Source: BID
Name: 22328
External Source: BID
Name: 22225
External Source: MS
Name: MS07-014
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/932114.mspx
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017564
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23950
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 31900
External Source: MISC
Name: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2133
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:528
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:528
Type: Tool Signature
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:528
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5