Kaspersky ID:
KLA10770
Detect Date:
03/08/2016
Updated:
01/22/2024

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft Office. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code or bypass security restrictions.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities

  1. An improper memory objects handling can be exploited remotely via a specially designed file or content to execute arbitrary code;
  2. An invalidly signed binary can be exploited by attacker with write access to the vulnerable binary by binary hijack to bypass security restrictions.

Technical details

To mitigate these vulnerabilities you can disable OLE package function in Outlook. For further instructions take a look at MS16-029 advisory.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2016-0021
    critical
  • CVE-2016-0057
    high
  • CVE-2016-0134
    critical

KB list

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