Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.

CVE-2008-4841 Details

Description

The WordPad Text Converter for Word 97 files in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) .doc, (2) .wri, or (3) .rtf Word 97 file that triggers memory corruption, as exploited in the wild in December 2008. NOTE: As of 20081210, it is unclear whether this vulnerability is related to a WordPad issue disclosed on 20080925 with a 2008-crash.doc.rar example, but there are insufficient details to be sure.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2008-crash.doc.rar	CVE	Exploit
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-010	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32997	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4711	CVE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021376	CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6050	CVE
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6560	CVE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/960906.mspx	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31399	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32718	CVE
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.html	CVE	US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3390	CVE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1024	CVE
http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2008-crash.doc.rar	[email protected]	Exploit
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-010	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/32997	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4711	[email protected]
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021376	[email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6050	[email protected]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6560	[email protected]
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/960906.mspx	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31399	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32718	[email protected]
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.html	[email protected]	US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3390	[email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1024	[email protected]

see all 26 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-399	Resource Management Errors	[email protected]
NVD-CWE-noinfo	Insufficient Information to Classify Weakness	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
microsoft wordpad	unknown
CPE cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:wordpad:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:wordpad:unknown:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.
microsoft windows 2000	All versions
CPE cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000::sp4::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.
microsoft windows server 2003	All versions
CPE cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003::sp1::::::* cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003::sp2::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.
microsoft windows xp	All versions
CPE cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::sp2::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

9 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 26, 2019	CPE Deprecation Remap	[email protected]
Feb 26, 2019	CPE Deprecation Remap	[email protected]
Oct 12, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 29, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 11, 2008	Initial Analysis	[email protected]

CVE-2008-4841 Details

Description

Metrics

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Weakness Enumeration

Affected Products

CPE

Remediation

CPE

Remediation

CPE

Remediation

CPE

Remediation

Change History

QUICK INFO