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CVE-2008-4837

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
10/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; and Microsoft Works 8 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word document that contains a malformed table property, which triggers memory corruption, aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word_viewer:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word_viewer:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:*:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:works:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_outlook:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_outlook:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

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