CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10.0. It affects Microsoft. Its EPSS score suggests a 32.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
Original NVD Description
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word 2002 (10.6612.6714) SP3, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application exception) and possibly execute arbitrary code in winword.exe via certain unexpected values in a .doc file, including (1) an offset that triggers an out-of-bounds memory access, (2) a certain value that causes a large memory copy as triggered by an integer conversion error, and other values.