microsoft office CVE-2015-1642 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Office
Published on August 15, 2015

Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP2, and 2013 SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by March 24, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2015-1642 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 1.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?

The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.

CVE-2015-1642 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2015-1642

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