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>> Microsoft Office Multiple File Handling Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS06-062)

Title : Microsoft Office Multiple File Handling Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS06-062)
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-3981
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3434 - CVE-2006-3650 - CVE-2006-3864 - CVE-2006-3868
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-10-10


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Microsoft Office, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These flaws are due to memory corruption errors when handling files or documents containing a malformed record or Smart Tag, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document or web page.

Affected Products

Microsoft Access 2000
Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft FrontPage 2000
Microsoft Outlook 2000
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
Microsoft Publisher 2000
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Access 2002
Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft FrontPage 2002
Microsoft Outlook 2002
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Microsoft Publisher 2002
Microsoft Visio 2002
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Access 2003
Microsoft Excel 2003
Microsoft Excel 2003 Viewer
Microsoft FrontPage 2003
Microsoft InfoPath 2003
Microsoft OneNote 2003
Microsoft Outlook 2003
Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
Microsoft Project 2003
Microsoft Publisher 2003
Microsoft Visio 2003
Microsoft Word 2003
Microsoft Word 2003 Viewer
Microsoft Project 2000 Service Release 1
Microsoft Project 2002 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Visio 2002 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office v. X for Mac

Solution

Apply patches :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS06-062.mspx

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3981
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS06-062.mspx

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Dejun Meng (Fortinet Inc), Arnaud Dovi, and Sowhat (Nevis Labs).

ChangeLog

2006-10-10 : Initial release

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