CVE-2006-5994

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5994
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermicrosoft
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-06 20:28:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 9.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Office 2000 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Office 2003 sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Office 2004 All mac All
Application Microsoft Office xp sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Word 2000 All All All
Application Microsoft Word 2002 All All All
Application Microsoft Word 2003 All All All
Application Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 All All All
Application Microsoft Works 2004 All All All
Application Microsoft Works 2005 All All All
Application Microsoft Works 2006 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Microsoft Word Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Your request has been blocked. This could be due to several reasons. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.microsoft.com
www.osvdb.org/30824 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Microsoft warns of zero-day attack on Word af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.computerworld.com
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-014 - Critical | Microsoft Docs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.microsoft.com
SecuriTeam Blogs » Microsoft Word 0-day Vulnerability FAQ - December 2006, CVE-2006-5994 [UPDATED] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.securiteam.com
Microsoft Word Malformed String Arbitrary Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Microsoft Word String Processing Bug Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Welcome to the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog! : Microsoft Security Advisory (929433) Posted af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.technet.com
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-044A -- Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#167928 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
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