CVE-2006-5994

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for Mac, and Works 2004, 2005, and 2006 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a malformed string that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6456.

Score

CVSS 2.0 9.3 Critical

Status

Modified - secure@microsoft.com

Published

2006-12-06

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Office (Microsoft)
• Word (Microsoft)
• Word Viewer (Microsoft)
• Works (Microsoft)

References

• http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759
• http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23232
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017339
• http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx
• http://www.osvdb.org/30824
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453735/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453906/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454061/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21451
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4866
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-014
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30738
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A238