CVE-2010-1902 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-1902?

CVE-2010-1902 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 11 Aug 2010. 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

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2; Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Word Viewer; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified properties in the data in a crafted RTF document, aka "Word RTF Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1902?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, Microsoft Office Word Viewer, Microsoft Open Xml File Format Converter, Microsoft Word.

How do I fix CVE-2010-1902?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-1902 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-1902 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-1902 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
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Also known as GHSA-gvvf-v65f-jf8j.