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CVE-2012-2539

Microsoft Word 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 SP1; Word Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack SP2 and SP3; and Office Web Apps 2010 SP1 al

Published
Last modified
published
Listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Microsoft Word, Word Viewer, the Office Compatibility Pack, and Office Web Apps are affected. An attacker who gets a user to open specially crafted RTF content could run arbitrary code on the system or crash the application through memory corruption.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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Microsoft Word 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 SP1; Word Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack SP2 and SP3; and Office Web Apps 2010 SP1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted RTF data, aka "Word RTF 'listoverridecount' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 3

us-cert.gov

docs.microsoft.com

oval.cisecurity.org