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The newest Word flaw is due to malformed data structure handling Dec 11 2006 09:59PM Juha-Matti Laurio (juha-matti laurio netti fi) (2 replies) Re: The newest Word flaw is due to malformed data structure handling Dec 12 2006 12:20AM Alexander Sotirov (asotirov determina com) |
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> Related to the newest MS Word 0-day
> http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/10/new-report-of-a-word-ze
ro-day.aspx
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> US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#166700 released today lists the
> following new technical detail:
> "Microsoft Word fails to properly handle malformed data structures
> allowing memory corruption to occur."
> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/166700
> - Juha-Matti
That's kind-of a truism, since word files basically /are/ serialised data
structures. Well, assuming we're not talking about some new xml format but
native word .doc format.
cheers,
DaveK
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