CVE-2006-3864

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 33.8% 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

Unspecified vulnerability in mso.dll in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, XP, and 2003, allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed record in a (1) .DOC, (2) .PPT, or (3) .XLS file that triggers memory corruption, related to an "array boundary condition" (possibly an array index overflow), a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3434, CVE-2006-3650, and CVE-2006-3868.

Affected products

Microsoft Office: 2000-sp3, 2003-sp1, 2003-sp2, 2004, v.x, xp-sp3
Microsoft Project: 2000-sr1, 2002-sp1
Microsoft Visio: 2002-sp2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22339
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017034
http://secway.org/advisory/AD20061010.txt
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922581
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/176556
http://www.osvdb.org/29429
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448268/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20384
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3981
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-062
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A632

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