Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Detailed Information on the risk:
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the RichEdit components provided with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability when a user interacts with a malformed embedded OLE object within a Rich Text Format (RTF) file.
If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.Further information on this exploit is available at : MS07-013