Fortinet Advisory: Fortinet Discovers Multiple Microsoft Visio Vulnerabilities (MS10-028)

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Fortinet Discovers Multiple Microsoft Visio Vulnerabilities (MS10-028)

2010.April.13

 

Summary:

 

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered two memory corruption
vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Visio, which allow a remote attacker to
compromise a system through a malicious document.

 

Impact:

 

Remote Code Execution.

 

Risk:

 

High.

 

Affected Software:

 

For a list of affected software, please refer to the Microsoft Security
Bulletin reference below.

 

Additional Information:

 

Two memory corruption vulnerabilities were discovered in Microsoft Office
Visio, each of which is highlighted below:

 

    * Memory corruption in "vislib.dll" (CVE-2010-0254)

    * Memory corruption in "vislib.dll" (CVE-2010-0256)

 

The vulnerabilities are triggered when opening and rendering a Visio file. A
remote attacker could craft a malicious document which exploits either one
of these vulnerabilities, allowing them to compromise a system.

 

Solutions:

 

    * Users should apply the solution provided by Microsoft.

 

FortiGuard Labs released the following signatures to protect against these
vulnerabilities

 

    * "MS.Visio.Attribute.Memory.Corruption", previously released as
"FG-VD-09-006-Microsoft" (CVE-2010-0254).

    * "MS.Visio.objectID.Memory.Corruption", previously released as
"FG-VD-09-005-Microsoft" (CVE-2010-0256).

 

References:

 

    * Microsoft Security Bulletin:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-028.mspx

    * CVE ID: CVE-2010-0254

    * CVE ID: CVE-2010-0256

 

 

Acknowledgment:

 

    * Bing Liu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

 

 

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