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Microsoft Office: CVE-2018-0845: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Microsoft Office: CVE-2018-0845: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/22/2018
Created
06/27/2023
Added
06/20/2023
Modified
06/20/2023

Description

Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0805, CVE-2018-0806, and CVE-2018-0807.

Solution(s)

  • microsoft-word_2016-kb4011643

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