CVE-2006-1540

N/A
Published: March 30, 2006 at 11:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:23 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOffice

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 29%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (14)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/21012
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKExploitThird Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015855
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/609868
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDBBroken Link
http://www.osvdb.org/27150
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploitThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17252
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18889
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-192A.html

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-94

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