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Synthesis of the vulnerability 
An attacker can generate a memory corruption via RTF of Microsoft Office, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
 Impacted software: Office, Access, Microsoft OCS, Office Communicator, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, MOSS, Visio, Word.
Severity of this computer vulnerability: 3/4.
Creation date: 12/10/2016.
Références of this announce: 3194063, CERTFR-2016-AVI-339, CVE-2016-7193, MS16-121, VIGILANCE-VUL-20830.
Description of the vulnerability 
The Microsoft Office product can open documents in RTF format.
However, a malicious document corrupts the Microsoft Office memory.
An attacker can therefore generate a memory corruption via RTF of Microsoft Office, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
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This security alert impacts software or systems such as Office, Access, Microsoft OCS, Office Communicator, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, MOSS, Visio, Word.
Our Vigil@nce team determined that the severity of this security weakness is important.
The trust level is of type confirmed by the editor, with an origin of document.
An attacker with a expert ability can exploit this security announce.
Solutions for this threat 
Microsoft Office: patch for RTF.
A patch is indicated in information sources.
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