CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5994
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-06
- 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
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft office 2000
• microsoft office 2003
• microsoft office 2004
• microsoft office xp
• microsoft word 2000
• microsoft word 2002
• microsoft word 2003
• microsoft word viewer 2003
• microsoft works 2004
• microsoft works 2005
• microsoft works 2006
References
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759 blogs.securiteam.com
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23232 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017339 securitytracker.com
- http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list www.computerworld.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928 US Government Resource
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx www.microsoft.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/30824 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453735/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453906/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454061/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21451 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4866 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-014 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30738 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A238 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759 blogs.securiteam.com
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23232 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017339 securitytracker.com
- http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list www.computerworld.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928 US Government Resource
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx www.microsoft.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/30824 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453735/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453906/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454061/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21451 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4866 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-014 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30738 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A238 oval.cisecurity.org