Memory corruption in Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint Server - CVE-2017-0003

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error when processing Office documents. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted Office document, trick the victim into opening it, cause memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability will result in system compromise.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-0003

Sources

• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-002.aspx