Home / bulletins MS08-072 – Critical: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957173) - Version:1.1
Posted on 17 December 2008
There is an newer version: MS08-072 - Version: 2.0
CriticalSeverity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.1 (December 17, 2008): Changed the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer deployment summary to "no" for Microsoft Office Word 2000 Service Pack 3 in the Detection and Deployment Tools and Guidance section. Also, revised the bulletins replaced by this update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Service Pack 1 in the Affected Software table. There were no changes to the security update binaries.Summary: This security update resolves eight privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Outlook that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Other versions
- MS08-072 - Version: 1.0
- MS08-072 - Version: 1.1
- MS08-072 - Version: 1.2
- MS08-072 - Version: 2.0
- MS08-072 - Version: 2.0
