PT-2016-1984 · Microsoft · Office+4

Published 2016-05-10 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2016-0198

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 versions 2007 SP3 through 2016 Microsoft Word versions 2007 SP3 through 2016 Microsoft Word for Mac versions 2011 through 2016 Office Compatibility Pack version SP3 Word Viewer (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document. This is due to the Office software failing to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system, install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights. Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Office software.

Recommendations For Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Microsoft Word 2010 SP2, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Microsoft Word 2013 SP1, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Microsoft Word 2013 RT SP1, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Microsoft Word 2016, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Microsoft Word for Mac 2016, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Office Compatibility Pack SP3, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Word Viewer, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-01318

CVE-2016-0198

Affected Products

Office

Office Word

Word For Mac

Office Compatibility Pack

Word Viewer

References · 9

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01318 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-054 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-0198 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0198 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0198 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/89962 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1035819 · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS16-054 · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms16-054 · Note