CVE-2006-5994
First published: Wed Dec 06 2006(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secure@microsoft.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Works | =2006 | |
| Microsoft Office | =2004 | |
| Microsoft Word | =2000 | |
| Microsoft Office | =xp-sp3 | |
| Microsoft Office | =2003-sp2 | |
| Microsoft Word | =2003 | |
| Microsoft Works | =2005 | |
| Microsoft Word | =2002 | |
| Microsoft Word Viewer | =2003 | |
| Microsoft Works | =2004 | |
| Microsoft Office | =2000-sp3 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx
- http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21451
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23232
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017339
- http://www.osvdb.org/30824
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4866
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30738
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A238
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-014
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454061/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453906/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453735/100/0/threaded
- collector/nvd-historical
- vendor/microsoft
- product/works
- canonical/microsoft works
- product/office
- canonical/microsoft office
- product/word
- canonical/microsoft word
- product/word viewer
- canonical/microsoft word viewer
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/author
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/tags
- agent/type
- agent/weakness
- version/microsoft works/2006
- version/microsoft office/2004
- version/microsoft word/2000
- version/microsoft office/xp-sp3
- version/microsoft office/2003-sp2
- version/microsoft word/2003
- version/microsoft works/2005
- version/microsoft word/2002
- version/microsoft word viewer/2003
- version/microsoft works/2004
- version/microsoft office/2000-sp3