CVE-2016-7298: microsoft office

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-7298 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in microsoft office. EPSS estimates a 22.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 20-12-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, Office 2010 SP2, Word Viewer, Office for Mac 2011, and Office 2016 for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted document, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

• 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.