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CVE-2017-12824 is an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in InPage, a word processing and publishing application used for Urdu and Arabic content. The flaw is in the parsing logic of the proprietary document format, specifically handling of the InPage100 stream in inpage.exe. Available analysis indicates InPage fails to properly validate certain type values while processing document fields, resulting in an out-of-bounds read that can be leveraged to reach an out-of-bounds function pointer access. By crafting a malicious .inp document with attacker-controlled field values, an attacker can redirect instruction flow to embedded shellcode. In observed exploitation, the malicious document contained staged shellcode that located and decoded additional payload components and then downloaded and executed malware. The issue was reported as a zero-day and assigned CVE-2017-12824.
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An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the InPage word processor that can be exploited via crafted .inp documents to achieve arbitrary code execution; it is significant because the article describes repeated targeted attacks against Pakistan using this flaw.
A vulnerability in InPage, a word processor for Urdu and Arabic languages, that allows remote code execution via malicious InPage files.
A vulnerability in InPage exploited by a malicious document to drop a VB backdoor in Urpage-linked activity.
A zero-day code execution vulnerability in the InPage document parser within inpage.exe, triggered by a crafted field in an InPage document to control instruction flow and execute shellcode.
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