CVE-2008-0109
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 30.9%EU EUVD
Word in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, Office 2003 SP2, and Office Word Viewer 2003 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted fields within the File Information Block (FIB) of a Word file, which triggers length calculation errors and memory corruption.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 30.9% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0122)
- Published
- February 12, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0122 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / word
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120361015026386&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28901(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/692417(US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488071/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27656
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019374
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-043C.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0511/references(Vendor Advisory)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-009
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5073
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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