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Microsoft Office: CVE-2018-0851: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Microsoft Office: CVE-2018-0851: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/15/2018
Created
06/27/2023
Added
06/20/2023
Modified
06/20/2023

Description

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2, Microsoft Office Word Viewer, Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Microsoft Office 2013 SP1 and RT SP1, Microsoft Office 2016, and Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run (C2R) allow a remote code execution vulnerability, due to how Office handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0852.

Solution(s)

  • microsoft-office_2016-kb4011686

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