Memory corruption in Microsoft Access and Microsoft Office - CVE-2008-2463

Vulnerability identifier: #VU1266

CSH Severity: Critical

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Red

CVE-ID: CVE-2008-2463

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vendor: Microsoft

Affected software:
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Office

The vulnerability alows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to buffer overflow in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access. A remote attacker can construct a specially crafted Web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Note: this vulnerability was being actively exploited.

Install update from vendor's website:

Microsoft Office Access 2000 Service Pack 3:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=54e4031d-298f-480c-88d5-0ad3b2b62ba9
https://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms03-038
Microsoft Office Access 2002 Service Pack 3:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=34b655f8-1922-4246-94ca-ed381c3e3b13
https://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms03-038
Microsoft Office Access 2003 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office Access 2003 Service Pack 3:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fd698517-a504-427d-9e5f-fde8f102142c

• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms08-041.aspx
• https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms03-038