CVE-2009-2506
Integer overflow in the text converters in Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3; Works 8.5; Office Converter Pack; and WordPad in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DOC file with an invalid number of property names in the DocumentSummaryInformation stream, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
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-189
- EPSS score
- 31.2% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-2501)
- Published
- December 9, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-2501 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / office converter pack
- microsoft / office word
- microsoft / office word
- microsoft / windows 2000
- microsoft / windows server 2003
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / wordpad
- microsoft / works
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=834
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100070184
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37216
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-342A.html(US Government Resource)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-073
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5846
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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