CVE-2006-5994

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 32.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for Mac, and Works 2004, 2005, and 2006 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a malformed string that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6456.

Affected products

Microsoft Office: 2000-sp3, 2003-sp2, 2004, xp-sp3
Microsoft Word for Android: 2000, 2002, 2003
Microsoft Word Viewer: 2003
Microsoft Works: 2004, 2005, 2006

References

http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx
http://secunia.com/advisories/23232
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017339
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx
http://www.osvdb.org/30824
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453735/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453906/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454061/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21451

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