Kaspersky ID:
KLA11055
Detect Date:
04/11/2017
Updated:
01/22/2024

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft Office. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information, gain privileges, bypass security restrictions and spoof user interface.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

  1. An incorrect handling of objects in memory in certain functions can be exploited remotely by convincing a user to open a specially designed document file;
  2. An improper sanitizing of web requests can be exploited remotely by sending an email message or hosting a website with a specially designed URL and convincing a user to open it to gain privileges;
  3. An incorrect parsing of file formats can be exploited remotely by convincing a user to open a specially designed file to bypass security restrictions;
  4. An improper sanitizing of HTML tags can be exploited remotely by sending an email message with specially disigned HTML tags to spoof user interface;
  5. An improper parsing of email messages can be exploited remotely by convincing a user to open or preview a specially designed email message to execute arbitrary code.

Original advisories

Exploitation

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

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2017-0194
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  • CVE-2017-0195
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  • CVE-2017-0207
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  • CVE-2017-0204
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  • CVE-2017-0106
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KB list

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