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TITLE:
Microsoft Office Publisher File Parsing Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28906

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28906/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office 2000
http://secunia.com/product/24/
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 XP
http://secunia.com/product/23/
Microsoft Publisher 2000
http://secunia.com/product/29/
Microsoft Publisher 2002
http://secunia.com/product/30/
Microsoft Publisher 2003
http://secunia.com/product/10986/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Office
Publisher, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

1) An error during processing of application data when loading
Publisher (.pub) files to memory can be exploited via a specially
crafted Publisher file.

2) An error in the processing of memory index values when loading
Publisher files to memory can be exploited via a specially crafted
Publisher file.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of
arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Office Publisher 2000:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D8B085FB-858F-4C7E-96DE-EDFF8F49D62A

Microsoft Office Publisher 2002:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1135C63A-6CE7-4051-81BA-BFBBA8D857FB

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7078B952-09F6-4C47-8C05-40667E1F1C3B

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits:
* Piotr Bania
* Bing Liu, Fortinet Security Research.

2) The vendor credits Bing Liu, Fortinet Security Research.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS08-012 (KB947085):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-012.mspx

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