CVE-2007-2224: microsoft office

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-2224 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in microsoft office. EPSS estimates a 34.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 14-08-2007
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Object linking and embedding (OLE) Automation, as used in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Office 2004 for Mac, and Visual Basic 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the substringData method on a TextNode object, which causes an integer overflow that leads to a buffer overflow.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
• CWE-189Numeric ErrorsWeaknesses in this category are related to improper calculation or conversion of numbers.