National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3221

Overview

Microsoft Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, Office 2004 for Mac, and Word Viewer do not properly handle a malformed record during parsing of a Word document, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document that triggers memory corruption, aka "Word Parsing Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-285A

Name: TA10-285A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS10-079

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-079.mspx

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7032

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7032

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7032

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7032