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CVE-2008-4028

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 38.1% 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-119

Description

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; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted control words related to multiple Drawing Object tags in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4030.

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/1/499063/100/0/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-08-085
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-085/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-072
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6096
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499063/100/0/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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