CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6561
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-14
- 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, 2002, and Word Viewer 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DOC file that triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated via the 12122006-djtest.doc file, a different issue than CVE-2006-5994 and 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=763 blogs.securiteam.com
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/15/update-on-current-word-vulnerability-reports.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061212.html Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017390 securitytracker.com
- http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/13/HNthirdword_1.html www.infoworld.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/996892 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.milw0rm.com/sploits/12122006-djtest.doc Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454219/30/0/threaded Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21589 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4997 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30885 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A332 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=763 blogs.securiteam.com
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/15/update-on-current-word-vulnerability-reports.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061212.html Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017390 securitytracker.com
- http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/13/HNthirdword_1.html www.infoworld.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/996892 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.milw0rm.com/sploits/12122006-djtest.doc Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454219/30/0/threaded Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21589 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4997 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30885 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A332 oval.cisecurity.org