CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-0261

Use After Free

Published: May 12, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Office 2013 SP1, and Office 2016 allow a remote code execution vulnerability when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-0262 and CVE-2017-0281.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Office Microsoft 2010-sp2 (including) 2010-sp2 (including)
Office Microsoft 2013-sp1 (including) 2013-sp1 (including)
Office Microsoft 2016 (including) 2016 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References