CVE-2007-2224

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
70.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: August 14, 2007 (6847 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Object linking and embedding (OLE) Automation, as used in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Office 2004 for Mac, and Visual Basic 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the substringData method on a TextNode object, which causes an integer overflow that leads to a buffer overflow.

CWE

CWE-119

Affected Products

microsoft officemicrosoft visual basic

References

🔗 secunia.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 www.us-cert.gov