Memory corruption in Microsoft products - CVE-2007-3899

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error when handling malformed strings in Word document. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted MS Word document, trick the victim into opening it and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in compromise of vulnerable system.

Note: this vulnerability is being actively exploited.

How to mitigate CVE-2007-3899

Sources

• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms07-060.aspx