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CVE-2006-5994

N/A
Published: December 6, 2006 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM UTC
4 products affected across 1 vendorOfficeWordWord Viewer

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 32%

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

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

Remediation

No guide yet

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Patch and advisory references

References (17)

x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/23232
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Source: [email protected]
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017339
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Source: [email protected]
http://www.osvdb.org/30824

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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