CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-1540
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-03-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
MSO.DLL in Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP (2002), and Office 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code via multiple attack vectors, as originally demonstrated using a crafted document record with a malformed string, as demonstrated by replacing a certain "01 00 00 00" byte sequence with an "FF FF FF FF" byte sequence, possibly causing an invalid array index, in (1) an Excel .xls document, which triggers an access violation in ole32.dll; (2) an Excel .xlw document, which triggers an access violation in excel.exe; (3) a Word document, which triggers an access violation in mso.dll in winword.exe; and (4) a PowerPoint document, which triggers an access violation in powerpnt.txt. NOTE: after the initial disclosure, this issue was demonstrated by triggering an integer overflow using an inconsistent size for a Unicode "Sheet Name" string.
Affected configurations
• microsoft office
• microsoft office 2000
• microsoft office 2003
• microsoft office 2004
• microsoft office v.x
• microsoft office xp
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21012 Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015855 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/609868 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/27150 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439697/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17252 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18889 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-192A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2756 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-038 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27607 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27609 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A639 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1615 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21012 Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015855 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/609868 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/27150 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439697/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17252 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18889 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-192A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2756 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-038 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27607 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27609 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A639 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1615 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry