National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2224
Original release date:08/14/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Object linking and embedding (OLE) Automation, as used in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Office 2004 for Mac, and Visual Basic 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the substringData method on a TextNode object, which causes an integer overflow that leads to a buffer overflow.
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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-226A
Name: TA07-226A
External Source: MS
Name: MS07-043
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018560
External Source: BID
Name: 25282
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070814 ZDI-07-048: Microsoft Internet Explorer substringData() Heap Overflow Vulnerability
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-2867
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26449
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1248
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1248
Type: Tool Signature
