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CVE-2008-4027
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 33.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2008-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-399
Description
Double free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Outlook 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; and Office 2004 for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) RTF file or (2) rich text e-mail message with multiple consecutive Drawing Object ("\do") tags, which triggers a "memory calculation error" and memory corruption, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability."
Affected products
- Microsoft Office: 2004, 2008
- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack For Word Excel Ppt 2007: all versions
- Microsoft Office Outlook: 2007, 2007-sp1
- Microsoft Office Word: 2000-sp3, 2002-sp3, 2003-sp3, 2007
- Microsoft Office Word Viewer: 2003, 2003-sp3
- Microsoft Open Xml File Format Converter: all versions
- Microsoft Works: 8.0
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499062/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021370
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-084
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-084/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-072
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6098
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499062/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021370
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384
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