Microsoft Office Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

Microsoft Office Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory:	SA23671	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2007-01-09
Popularity:	13,225 views

Critical:	Highly critical
Impact:	System access
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	Microsoft Access 2003 Microsoft Excel 2003 Microsoft Frontpage 2003 Microsoft InfoPath 2003 Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition Microsoft OneNote 2003 Microsoft Outlook 2003 Microsoft Powerpoint 2003 Microsoft Publisher 2003 Microsoft Visio 2003 Microsoft Word 2003

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CVE reference:	CVE-2006-5574

Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Office, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Brazilian Portuguese grammar checker and can be exploited to corrupt memory by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Office document. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code. Solution: Apply patches. Microsoft Office 2003 SP2 (Brazilian Portuguese Version): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=B828BA91-A993-41EC-839C-8995CCFAEC6B Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface 2003 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=C860DE66-DB1A-489D-8518-42CE468F5965 Microsoft Project Multilingual User Interface 2003 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=8F233E5D-1270-4041-9CDD-C3541B7F4B40 Microsoft Visio Multilingual User Interface 2003 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=C5A29C81-419C-440B-BF0B-FEC0C0708430 Microsoft Office Proofing Tools 2003 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=51E9C97A-C35F-45AD-A587-8F08F1D34B7B Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by the vendor. Original Advisory: MS07-001 (KB921585): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-001.mspx

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