National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2224

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):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-226A

Name: TA07-226A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-226A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS07-043

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-043.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2867

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2867

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018560

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018560

External Source: BID

Name: 25282

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25282

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070814 ZDI-07-048: Microsoft Internet Explorer substringData() Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/476527/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26449

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26449

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1248

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1248

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1248

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1248

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1248