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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
MS09-073 Vulnerability in WordPad and Office Text Converters Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975539) Microsoft Office Critical 08-12-2009

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft WordPad and Microsoft Office text converters. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted Word 97 file is opened in WordPad or Microsoft Office Word.
Detailed Information on the risk:

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that text converters in Microsoft WordPad and Microsoft Office Word process memory when a user opens a specially crafted Word 97 file.


Further information on this exploit is available at : MS09-073

Affected Software

Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3
Microsoft Office Converter Pack
Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Works 8.5
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Windows XP Service Pack 3