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Microsoft Wordpad Memory Exhaustion (msftedit)
Aug 12 2009 05:45PM
murderkey gmail com
Affected Software:
Microsoft Wordpad on Windows XP SP3
Description of Vulnerability:
Microsoft Wordpad (on Windows XP SP3) contains a vulnerability that can allow an attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability is due to a memory exhaustion error when a user tries to view a malicious .RTF file.
An attacker can exploit the vulnerability by creating a malicious RTF file that will allocate large amounts of
memory and cause a denial of service condition.
Vulnerable version:
Windows XP SP3
Platform:
Windows XP SP3
Solution:
There is not a patch. Do not open untrusted files.
Credits:
Discovered by murderkey, Hellcode Research.
Exploit: http://www.hellcode.net/wordpad.txt
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Microsoft Wordpad on Windows XP SP3
Description of Vulnerability:
Microsoft Wordpad (on Windows XP SP3) contains a vulnerability that can allow an attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability is due to a memory exhaustion error when a user tries to view a malicious .RTF file.
An attacker can exploit the vulnerability by creating a malicious RTF file that will allocate large amounts of
memory and cause a denial of service condition.
Vulnerable version:
Windows XP SP3
Platform:
Windows XP SP3
Solution:
There is not a patch. Do not open untrusted files.
Credits:
Discovered by murderkey, Hellcode Research.
Exploit: http://www.hellcode.net/wordpad.txt
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