CVE-2007-2224 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2007-2224?

CVE-2007-2224 is a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 14 Aug 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Object linking and embedding (OLE) Automation, as used in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Office 2004 for Mac, and Visual Basic 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the substringData method on a TextNode object, which causes an integer overflow that leads to a buffer overflow.

Weakness: CWE-189, CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-2224?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Basic.

How do I fix CVE-2007-2224?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-2224 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2007-2224 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-2224 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5hfx-qqxc-xf62.