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Microsoft Publisher Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (951208)

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4502

Synopsis

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Microsoft Publisher.

Description

The remote host is running a version of Microsoft Publisher which is subject to a flaw which may allow arbitrary code to be run. An attacker may use this to execute arbitrary code on this host. To succeed, the attacker would have to send a rogue file to a user of the remote computer and have it open it. Then a bug in the font parsing handler would result in code execution.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Publisher 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007:

See Also

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-027.mspx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4502

Family: Generic

Published: 8/18/2004

Updated: 9/16/2018

Nessus ID: 32311

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0119

BID: 29158