CVE-2010-3955

critical
Published 2010-12-16 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

pubconv.dll (aka the Publisher Converter DLL) in Microsoft Publisher 2002 SP3 does not properly perform array indexing, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Publisher file that uses an old file format, aka "Array Indexing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftpublisher2002

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.