Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability".
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102370 | vdb entry third party advisory broken link |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040153 | vdb entry third party advisory broken link |
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0798 | patch vendor advisory |
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2018/01/bringing-abandoned-equation-editor-back.html | third party advisory |