From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2007 - 13:17:05 CST

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TITLE:
Microsoft Office Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23671

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23671/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2278/
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2275/
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2277/
Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools
http://secunia.com/product/7426/
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2276/
Microsoft Access 2003
http://secunia.com/product/4904/
Microsoft Word 2003
http://secunia.com/product/4908/
Microsoft Excel 2003
http://secunia.com/product/4970/
Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://secunia.com/product/3292/
Microsoft OneNote 2003
http://secunia.com/product/7140/
Microsoft Powerpoint 2003
http://secunia.com/product/5274/
Microsoft Publisher 2003
http://secunia.com/product/10986/
Microsoft InfoPath 2003
http://secunia.com/product/6463/
Microsoft Frontpage 2003
http://secunia.com/product/6997/
Microsoft Visio 2003
http://secunia.com/product/1092/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Brazilian
Portuguese grammar checker and can be exploited to corrupt memory by
tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Office document.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Office 2003 SP2 (Brazilian Portuguese Version):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B828BA91-A993-41EC-839C-8995CCFAEC6B

Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface 2003 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C860DE66-DB1A-489D-8518-42CE468F5965

Microsoft Project Multilingual User Interface 2003 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8F233E5D-1270-4041-9CDD-C3541B7F4B40

Microsoft Visio Multilingual User Interface 2003 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C5A29C81-419C-440B-BF0B-FEC0C0708430

Microsoft Office Proofing Tools 2003 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=51E9C97A-C35F-45AD-A587-8F08F1D34B7B

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS07-001 (KB921585):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-001.mspx

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