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>> Microsoft Word Document Handling Memory Corruption and Code Execution Vulnerability

Title : Microsoft Word Document Handling Memory Corruption and Code Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4997
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6561
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-12-14


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A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Word, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a memory corruption error when handling a malformed document, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Word document.

Note : This issue is distinct from VUPEN/ADV-2006-4920 and VUPEN/ADV-2006-4866

Affected Products

Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Word Viewer 2003

Solution

Apply patches :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-014.mspx

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4997
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/15/update-on-current-word-vulnerability-reports.aspx

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Disco Jonny

ChangeLog

2006-12-14 : Initial release
2006-12-15 : Updated References
2007-02-13 : Updated Solution

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