CVE-2017-11825 Memory corruption in Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac

What is CVE-2017-11825?

CVE-2017-11825 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 13 Oct 2017. 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 2016 Click-to-Run (C2R) and Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac allow an attacker to use a specially crafted file to perform actions in the security context of the current user, due to how Microsoft Office handles files in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability".

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-11825?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office for Mac.

How do I fix CVE-2017-11825?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-11825 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-2017-11825 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-11825 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-f6q6-xhg5-qpp7.