National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0235

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Word 97 text converter in WordPad in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word 97 file that triggers memory corruption, related to use of inconsistent integer data sizes for an unspecified length field, aka "WordPad Word 97 Text Converter Stack Overflow Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-104A

Name: TA09-104A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS09-010

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-010.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1024

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1024

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022043

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022043

External Source: BID

Name: 34470

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34470

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5893

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5893

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 53664

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/53664

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20090414 Microsoft WordPad Word97 Converter Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=783

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5893

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5893