CVE-2007-6026

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 28.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft msjet40.dll 4.0.8618.0 (aka Microsoft Jet Engine), as used by Access 2003 in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted MDB file database file containing a column structure with a modified column count. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2005-0944.

Affected products

Microsoft Jet: 4.0.8618.0
Microsoft Office: 2003-sp3
Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: all versions
Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/advisory/TPTI-08-04
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058531.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2
http://ruder.cdut.net/blogview.asp?logID=227
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3376
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/936529
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483797/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483858/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483887/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483888/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492019/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26468

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