National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0087
Original release date:04/15/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in the Word 6 text converter in WordPad in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2; and the Word 6 text converter in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP3; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word 6 file that contains malformed data, aka "WordPad and Office Text Converter Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
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
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-104A
Name: TA09-104A
External Source: MS
Name: MS09-010
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1024
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022043
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5799
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 53662
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5799
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
