CVE-2006-5994
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.
- EPSS
- 32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:office
- microsoft:word
- microsoft:word_viewer
- microsoft:works
References
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23232
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017339
- http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list