CVE-2016-7244 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7244?

CVE-2016-7244 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 10 Nov 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Office 2007 SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a crafted Office document, aka "Microsoft Office Denial of Service Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7244?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7244?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-7244 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-7244 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7244 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-4rpx-hqr3-rp6m.