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CVE-2006-1311

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 31.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The RichEdit component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and 2003 SP1; Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, and Office 2004 for Mac; and Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office 1.0, 1.1, and 1.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed OLE object in an RTF file, which triggers memory corruption.

Affected products

• Microsoft Learning Essentials: 1.0, 1.1, 1.5
• Microsoft Office: 2000-sp3, 2003-sp2, xp-sp3
• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: sp1
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/24152
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/368132
• http://www.osvdb.org/31886
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21876
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017640
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017641
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0582
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-013
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30592
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1090
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24152

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