PT-2010-5188 · Microsoft · Office Converter Pack+2

Dyon Balding · Published 2010-12-16 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2010-3951

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Office XP SP3 Microsoft Office Converter Pack

Description A remote code execution issue exists in the way Microsoft Office parses specially crafted FlashPix image files. This could allow remote code execution if a user opens an Office document containing a specially crafted FlashPix image. An attacker who successfully exploits this issue could take complete control of an affected system, then install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights. Users with fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users operating with administrative user rights.

Recommendations For Microsoft Office XP SP3, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. For Microsoft Office Converter Pack, apply the necessary configuration changes to prevent the exploitation of this issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of FlashPix image files in Office documents until a patch is available.

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-3951

Affected Products

Office Converter Pack

Office Xp Sp3

Office

References · 7

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3951 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-105 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3951 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/MS10-105 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-348A.html · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1024887 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12350 · Note