PT-2016-1168 · Microsoft · Office 2007 Sp3+1

Published 2016-02-09 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2016-0055

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 2007 SP3 Microsoft Office (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in Microsoft Office, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document. This occurs when the Office software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploits the issue could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user has administrative user rights, the attacker could take control of the affected system, 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 those operating with administrative user rights.

Recommendations For Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For other affected versions of Microsoft Office, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-00429

CVE-2016-0055

Affected Products

Office

Office 2007 Sp3

References · 8

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-015 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-0055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0055 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0055 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00429 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1034976 · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms16-015 · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS16-015 · Note