CVE-2014-6364 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2014-6364?

CVE-2014-6364 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 11 Dec 2014. 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

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3; 2010 SP2; 2013 Gold, SP1, and SP2; and 2013 RT Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document, aka "Microsoft Office Component Use After Free Vulnerability."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-6364?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2014-6364?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-6364 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2014-6364 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-6364 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-68j5-5p29-q76h.