CVE-2011-1982 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2011-1982?

CVE-2011-1982 is a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 15 Sep 2011. 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

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2, and 2010 Gold and SP1, does not initialize an unspecified object pointer during the opening of Word documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, aka "Office Uninitialized Object Pointer Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1982?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2011-1982?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-1982 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2011-1982 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1982 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-r6xm-v62q-jv5w.