CVE-2006-5574

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

If a user were logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.

Unspecified vulnerability in the Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker in Microsoft Office 2003 and the Multilingual Interface for Office 2003, Project 2003, and Visio 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted text that is not properly parsed.

If a user were logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 18 years ago

2006-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-17 21:43:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Pack 2003 SP2

2003

Microsoft office_proofing_tools 2003 sp2

2003

Microsoft project_multilingual_user_interface 2003 sp2

2003

Microsoft visio_multilingual_user_interface 2003 sp2

2003

References

23671

Third Party Advisory

1017486

Third Party Advisory

31251

Broken Link

HPSBST02184

21942

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

ADV-2007-0102

Third Party Advisory

MS07-001

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