CVE-2007-0025

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 36.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The MFC component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and 2003 SP1 and Visual Studio .NET 2000, 2002 SP1, 2003, and 2003 SP1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an RTF file with a malformed OLE object that triggers memory corruption. NOTE: this might be due to a stack-based buffer overflow in the AfxOleSetEditMenu function in MFC42u.dll.

Affected products

Microsoft Visual Studio .Net: 2000, 2000-sp1, 2003-gold
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: 2000-sp4, 2003-sp2, xp_sp2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24150
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/932041
http://www.osvdb.org/31887
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22476
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017638
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0581
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-012
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A157
http://secunia.com/advisories/24150
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/932041
http://www.osvdb.org/31887

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