Microsoft Office 2010 Visio iFilter memory corruption vulnerability

Overview

The Microsoft Office 2010 Visio iFilter contains a memory corruption vulnerability that can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

Description

Microsoft Office 2010 provides a set of iFilters that are used by a variety of applications to process Office documents. The Office 2010 Filter Pack is a stand-alone package that provides the iFilters. A variety of applications may use iFilters, including Microsoft Windows Search, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server, and SQL Server. The Visio ifilter, which is provided by VISFILT.DLL, contains a memory corruption vulnerability.

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Impact

By causing a specially-crafted Visio document to be processed with the Visio iFilter, a remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process using the iFilter. This can happen through a number of attack vectors, including placing a Visio file in a location that is indexed by Windows Search.

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Solution

Apply an update

This issue is addressed by the update for Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-023.

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Vendor Information

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Notified: August 08, 2012 Updated: October 01, 2013

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

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Vendor Information

We are not aware of further vendor information regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor References

• <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-023&gt;

CVSS Metrics

Group	Score	Vector
Base	10	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Temporal	7.8	E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Environmental	5.9	CDP:ND/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

• <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-023&gt;
• <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms691105(v=vs.85).aspx&gt;

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported by Will Dormann of the CERT/CC

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2013-0079
Date Public:	2013-03-12 Date First Published: