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CVE-2008-4024
Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document…
High9.3EPSS 28.9%
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- microsoft
Description
Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a crafted lcbPlcfBkfSdt field in the File Information Block (FIB), which bypasses an initialization step and triggers an "arbitrary free," aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 28.9% · top 1.8% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- MS08-072 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20081210 CORE-2008-0228: Microsoft Word Malformed FIB Arbitrary Free Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5934 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.coresecurity.com/files/attachments/CORE-2008-0228-Word.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1021370 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- TA08-344A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3384 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/word-arbitrary-free (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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