A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Publisher, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a memory corruption error when processing a ".pub" file containing a malformed string, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Stuart Pearson
ChangeLog
2006-09-12 : Initial release
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