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CVE-2009-2506

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 31.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-12-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the text converters in Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3; Works 8.5; Office Converter Pack; and WordPad in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DOC file with an invalid number of property names in the DocumentSummaryInformation stream, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Microsoft Office Converter Pack: all versions
• Microsoft Office Word: 2002-sp3, 2003-sp3
• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions
• Microsoft Wordpad: all versions
• Microsoft Works: 8.5

References

• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=834
• http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100070184
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37216
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-342A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-073
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5846
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=834
• http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100070184
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37216
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-342A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-073
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5846

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