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Microsoft Office: CVE-2017-8502: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Microsoft Office: CVE-2017-8502: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/11/2017
Created
06/27/2023
Added
06/20/2023
Modified
06/20/2023

Description

Microsoft Office allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way that it handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8501.

Solution(s)

  • microsoft-excel_2016-kb3203477

References

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