Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-6801 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2003
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Microsoft Word 2003 SP2 and SP3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed .doc file containing an embedded image, as demonstrated by word2003forkbomb.doc, related to a "fork bomb" issue.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 2 | |
OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0035.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0035.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0038.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0038.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0045.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0045.html