National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0243
Original release date:02/10/2010
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in MSO.DLL in Microsoft Office XP SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document, aka "MSO.DLL 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: TA10-040A
Name: TA10-040A
External Source: MS
Name: MS10-003
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8399
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8399
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5