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Vulnerability in Word May Lead to Code Execution (903672)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the version of WinWord.exe

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

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

Description :

The remote host is running a version of Microsoft Word
which is subject to a flaw which may permit arbitrary code to be run.

A possible hacker may use this to execute arbitrary code on this host.

To succeed, the attacker would have to send a rogue word file to
a user of the remote computer and have it open it. Then a bug in
the font parsing handler would result in code execution.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Word 2000 and XP :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-035.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: 14216

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