CVE-2006-6456

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and 2003 and Word Viewer 2003 allows remote attackers to execute code via unspecified vectors related to malformed data structures that trigger memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5994.

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and 2003 and Word Viewer 2003 allows remote attackers to execute code via unspecified vectors related to malformed data structures that trigger memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5994.

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

2006-12-11 17:28:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-17 21:48:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Office 2000 sp3

2000

Microsoft Office 2003 sp2

2003

Microsoft Office 2004 Mac

2004

Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3

xp

Microsoft Word 2000

2000

Microsoft Word 2002

2002

Microsoft Word 2003

2003

Microsoft Word Viewer 2003

2003

Microsoft Works 2004

2004

Microsoft Works 2005

2005

Microsoft works_suite 2006

2006

References

20061210 Another, different MS Word 0-day vulnerability reported

20061211 The newest Word flaw is due to malformed data structure handling

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/10/new-report-of-a-word-zero-day.aspx

Vendor Advisory

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1925

Vendor Advisory

23205

Vendor Advisory

1017358

1017579

http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/content/v_141056.htm

Vendor Advisory

http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/content/v_vul27249.htm

Vendor Advisory

VU#166700

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

30825

20061210 Another, different MS Word 0-day vulnerability reported

20061210 Re: Another, different MS Word 0-day vulnerability reported

20061211 The newest Word flaw is due to malformed data structure handling

21518

TA07-044A

US Government Resource

ADV-2006-4920

ADV-2007-0435

MS07-014

word-unspec-code-execution(30806)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:746

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