CVE-2009-2506: Microsoft Office Converter Pack

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 31.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the text converters in Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3; Works 8.5; Office Converter Pack; and WordPad in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DOC file with an invalid number of property names in the DocumentSummaryInformation stream, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Microsoft Office Converter Pack: any version
• Microsoft Office Word: version 2002 only; version 2003 only
• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version
• Microsoft WordPad: any version
• Microsoft Works: version 8.5 only

Published 2009-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.