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East Asian language versions of Word and Powerpoint are susceptible to a buffer overflow exploit. The overflowable buffer is in the code that converts Word 5 documents into newer formats. Word 97, 98, and 2000 will automatically convert older files into the new format upon loading. If a specially-modified Chinese, Japanese or Korean Word 5 document is loaded into a newer version of Word or PowerPoint, arbitrary code can be executed during the conversion process, at the privilege level of the current user.

East Asian language versions of Word and Powerpoint are susceptible to a buffer overflow exploit. The overflowable buffer is in the code that converts Word 5 documents into newer formats. Word 97, 98, and 2000 will automatically convert older files into the new format upon loading. If a specially-modified Chinese, Japanese or Korean Word 5 document is loaded into a newer version of Word or PowerPoint, arbitrary code can be executed during the conversion process, at the privilege level of the current user.