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Microsoft Office IME (Chinese) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 14 Dec 2011 12:27 Release Date: 14 Dec 2011 4568 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Clients - Productivity Products

TYPE: Productivity Products

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to the way that the Microsoft Office IME (Chinese) improperly exposes configuration options not designed to run on the secure desktop. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full administrative rights.


Impact

  • Elevation of Privilege

System / Technologies affected

  • Microsoft Office 2010
  • Microsoft Office Pinyin SimpleFast Style 2010
  • Microsoft Office Pinyin New Experience Style 2010

Solutions

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