CVE-2011-0092: microsoft visio Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-0092 is a high (CVSS 9.3) Code Injection vulnerability in microsoft visio. EPSS estimates a 24.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 10-02-2011
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The LZW stream decompression functionality in ORMELEMS.DLL in Microsoft Visio 2002 SP2, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Visio file with a malformed VisioDocument stream that triggers an exception handler that accesses an object that has not been fully initialized, which triggers memory corruption, aka "Visio Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.