Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 13, 2010· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2010-3221

Description

Microsoft Word 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, Office 2004 for Mac, and Word Viewer do not properly handle a malformed record during parsing of a Word document, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document that triggers memory corruption, aka "Word Parsing Vulnerability."

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Affected products

Microsoft/Office
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
Microsoft/Word2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
Microsoft/Word Viewer
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Microsoft/Word 2002 SP3llm-create
Range: =2002 SP3
Microsoft/Office For Macllm-fuzzy
Range: =2004

cvss	0.000
epss	0.016
exploit	0.000
kev	0.000
patch	0.000
ransomware	0.000

CVE-2010-3221

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