CVE-2008-4024
Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a crafted lcbPlcfBkfSdt field in the File Information Block (FIB), which bypasses an initialization step and triggers an "arbitrary free," aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
- EPSS
- 29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:office
- microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007
- microsoft:office_outlook
- microsoft:office_word
- microsoft:office_word_viewer
- microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter
- microsoft:works