CVE-2006-3650

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 38.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac do not properly parse the length of a chart record, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with an embedded malformed chart record that triggers an overwrite of pointer values with values from the document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3434, CVE-2006-3864, and CVE-2006-3868.

Affected products

Microsoft Office: 2000, 2000-sp1, 2000-sp2, 2000-sp3, 2001, 2001-sr1 (+6)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22339
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017034
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/534276
http://www.osvdb.org/29428
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448151/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20383
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3981
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-034.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-062
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A222
http://secunia.com/advisories/22339

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