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TITLE:
Microsoft Office OneNote URI Handling Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31744

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31744/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office XP
http://secunia.com/product/23/
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2276/
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2277/
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2275/
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2278/
Microsoft Office 2007
http://secunia.com/product/13228/
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
http://secunia.com/product/13226/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Office OneNote, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the parsing of a URI
using the "onenote://" protocol handler. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted OneNote URI
referencing a specially crafted OneNote file.

NOTE: According to the vendor, the vulnerability exists in a shared
Office component, but can only be exploited on systems with OneNote
2007 installed.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Office XP SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ef3de64c-fc17-4500-9da4-a3bba97fda6d

Microsoft Office 2003 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e670ad22-d3c1-41f7-ba30-6a67139feaa3

Microsoft Office 2003 SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e670ad22-d3c1-41f7-ba30-6a67139feaa3

2007 Microsoft Office System:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fb457536-26c5-428b-97e4-1fc13718266e

2007 Microsoft Office System SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fb457536-26c5-428b-97e4-1fc13718266e

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8ac3576c-7873-4ac6-8bbc-033f6a7bb395

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8ac3576c-7873-4ac6-8bbc-033f6a7bb395

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Brett Moore, Insomnia Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS08-055 (KB955047):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-055.mspx

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