CVE-2009-0565: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 40.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2007 SP1 and SP2; Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 and 2008; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a malformed record that triggers memory corruption, aka "Word Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: version 2004 only; version 2008 only
• Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack For Word Excel Ppt 2007: any version
• Microsoft Office Word: version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only; version 2007 only
• Microsoft Office Word Viewer: any version; version 2003 only
• Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter: any version

Published 2009-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.