Memory corruption in Microsoft products - CVE-2009-0087

Vulnerability identifier: #VU1276

CSH Severity: Critical

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/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-2009-0087

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: Microsoft

Affected software:
Windows
Windows Server
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office

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

The weakness exists due to buffer overflow when process documents in Microsoft WordPad and Microsoft Office converter. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted Word file containing a malformed data, 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: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.

Install update from vendor's website:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=552d322a-5282-42c7-9c1e-1d8c494a7318
Windows XP Service Pack 2:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=50a8519a-503e-43dd-a78a-c1bc764fd213
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=323f4211-5add-4e02-bce1-e5a1b489982c
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2233a4d2-7c8a-4c89-b020-100d9afb43c8
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=323f4211-5add-4e02-bce1-e5a1b489982c
Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems and Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e840b9cb-f1f4-482a-aa07-eb6b42b477c4
Microsoft Office Word 2000 Service Pack 3:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95876927-e612-414c-bdec-3632a3100415
Microsoft Office Word 2002 Service Pack 3:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e1db55c6-78fb-498d-89a5-9ad54d971546

• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms09-010.aspx