FKIE_CVE-2014-2730

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-04-05 14:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:07
Severity
Summary
The XML parser in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, and 2013, and Office for Mac 2011, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and persistent application hang) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, as demonstrated by a crafted text/plain e-mail message to Outlook, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531722/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531722/100/0/threaded
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
microsoft office 2007
microsoft office 2010
microsoft office 2010
microsoft office 2010
microsoft office 2010
microsoft office 2011
microsoft office 2013
microsoft office 2013
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