Data Execution Prevention must be enforced.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-26590	DTOO128 - Word	SV-33859r1_rule		Medium

Description
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies performing additional checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running on a system. The primary benefit of DEP is to help prevent code execution from data pages. Enabling this setting, turns off Data Execution Prevention. As a result, malicious code takes advantage of code injection or buffer overflow vulnerabilities possibly exploiting the computer.

Description

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies performing additional checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running on a system. The primary benefit of DEP is to help prevent code execution from data pages. Enabling this setting, turns off Data Execution Prevention. As a result, malicious code takes advantage of code injection or buffer overflow vulnerabilities possibly exploiting the computer.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Word 2010	2016-10-28

Details

Check Text ( None )
None

Fix Text (F-29945r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Word 2010 -> Word Options -> Security -> Trust Center “Turn off Data Execution Prevention” to “Disabled”.