CVE-2007-2224

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 34.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Office: 2004
Microsoft Visual Basic: 6.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/26449
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476527/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25282
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018560
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-226A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2867
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-043
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1248
http://secunia.com/advisories/26449
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476527/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25282
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018560

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