National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2506

Overview

Integer overflow in the text converters in Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3; Works 8.5; Office Converter Pack; and WordPad in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DOC file with an invalid number of property names in the DocumentSummaryInformation stream, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-342A

Name: TA09-342A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-342A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS09-073

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-073.mspx

External Source: BID

Name: 37216

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37216

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100070184

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100070184

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5846

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5846

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20091208 Microsoft WordPad Word97 Converter Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=834

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5846

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5846