cve-2006-2492
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-05-20 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 17:51
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.
References
CISA Known exploited vulnerability
Data from the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
Date added: 2022-06-08
Due date: 2022-06-22
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Used in ransomware: Unknown
Notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2492
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