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CVE-2007-2903
Buffer overflow in the HelpPopup method in the Microsoft Office 2000 Controllo UA di Microsoft Office ActiveX control (OUACTRL.OCX)…
Medium5.0EPSS 28.5%
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- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in the HelpPopup method in the Microsoft Office 2000 Controllo UA di Microsoft Office ActiveX control (OUACTRL.OCX) 1.0.1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (probably winhlp32.exe crash) via a long first argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 28.5% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (7)
- http://shinnai.altervista.org/viewtopic.php?id=42&t_id=26 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://moaxb.blogspot.com/2007/05/moaxb-23-microsoft-office-2000.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- office-ouactrl-bo(34473) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1018107 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 24118 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 36034 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/moaxb/20070523/ouactrltxt.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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