A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Word, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This flaw is due to a memory corruption error when processing Word documents containing a malformed object pointer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a malicious document.
Note : This 0day vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by ISC
ChangeLog
2006-05-20 : Initial release
2006-05-22 : Updated Advisory
2006-06-13 : Updated Solution
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