Vigil@nce - Windows, Office: three vulnerabilities of XML Core Services
October 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of XML Core Services
of Windows.
Impacted products: Office, Access, Excel, InfoPath, OneNote,
Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, Word, Windows 2008
R0, Windows 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows 2012, Windows 7, Windows 8,
Windows RT, Windows Vista.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 11/08/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in XML Core Services used
by Windows/Office.
An attacker can force the usage of SSLv2, in order to obtain
sensitive information. [severity:2/4; CVE-2015-2434]
An attacker can guess the memory layout of a process, to bypass
ASLR, in order to ease the next step of the attack. [severity:2/4;
CVE-2015-2440, ZDI-15-381]
An attacker can force the usage of SSLv2, in order to obtain
sensitive information. [severity:2/4; CVE-2015-2471]
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Windows-Office-three-vulnerabilities-of-XML-Core-Services-17634