A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, Office for Mac and Visual Basic, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected server. This issue is caused by a heap overflow error in Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Automation when handling specially crafted script requests, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Ryan Smith and Alex Wheeler (IBM ISS X-Force).
ChangeLog
2008-02-12 : Initial release
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