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CVE-2008-4837
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3;…
High9.3EPSS 37.4%
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- microsoft
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; and Microsoft Works 8 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word document that contains a malformed table property, which triggers memory corruption, 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)
- 37.4% · top 1.5% 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
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-086/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-086 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20081209 ZDI-08-086: Microsoft Office Word Document Table Property Stack Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5982 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- 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)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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