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Visual Basic for Application Overflow

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the version of vbe.dll and vbe6.dll

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through VBA.

Description :

The remote host is running a version of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications
which is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when handling malformed documents.

A possible hacker may exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on this host, by
sending a malformed file to a user of the remote host.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Office :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-037.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

High / CVSS Base Score : 8
(AV:R/AC:H/Au:NR/C:C/A:C/I:C/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 8534

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Tenable Network Security

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