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Microsoft Word Document Handling Memory Corruption and Code Execution Vulnerability

Title : Microsoft Word Document Handling Memory Corruption and Code Execution Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-4997
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6561
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-12-14

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Word, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system [...]

Affected Products

Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Word Viewer 2003

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Disco Jonny

ChangeLog

2006-12-14 : Initial release
2006-12-15 : Updated References
2007-02-13 : Updated Solution

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