CVE-2017-0029

Microsoft Office Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2017-0029 is fixed in 9 products on 1 platform, first by KB3178686, released March 14, 2017. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

HighPublicly disclosed
CVSS
n/a
Important
Exploitation
None reported
Exploitation Unlikely
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.1570
96th percentile

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when a specially crafted file is opened in Microsoft Office. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause Office to stop responding. Note that the denial of service would not allow an attacker to execute code or to elevate the attacker's user rights.</p> <p>For an attack to be successful, this vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Office. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a specially crafted file to the user and by convincing the user to open the file.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office handles objects in memory.</p>

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Microsoft
Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 (32-bit editions) KB3178686 Mar 14, 2017
Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 (64-bit editions) KB3178686 Mar 14, 2017
Microsoft Word 2010 Service Pack 2 (32-bit editions) KB3178687 Mar 14, 2017
Microsoft Word 2010 Service Pack 2 (64-bit editions) KB3178687 Mar 14, 2017
Microsoft Word 2013 RT Service Pack 1 KB3172464 Mar 14, 2017
Microsoft Word 2013 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions) KB3172464 Mar 14, 2017
Microsoft Word 2013 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions) KB3172464 Mar 14, 2017
Microsoft Word 2016 (32-bit edition) KB3178674 Mar 14, 2017
Microsoft Word 2016 (64-bit edition) KB3178674 Mar 14, 2017