CVE-2006-5994
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-12-06 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:12
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secure@microsoft.comhttp://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759
secure@microsoft.comhttp://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx
secure@microsoft.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23232Vendor Advisory
secure@microsoft.comhttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017339
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928US Government Resource
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.osvdb.org/30824
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453735/100/0/threaded
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453906/100/0/threaded
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454061/100/0/threaded
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21451
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.htmlUS Government Resource
secure@microsoft.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4866Vendor Advisory
secure@microsoft.comhttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-014
secure@microsoft.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30738
secure@microsoft.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A238
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  • Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.