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Microsoft Word Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory:

SA21735

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Release Date:

2006-09-05

Last Update:

2006-10-13

Popularity:

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Critical:

Extremely critical

Impact:

System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office X for Mac
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Word 2003
Microsoft Word Viewer 2003
Microsoft Works Suite 2004
Microsoft Works Suite 2005
Microsoft Works Suite 2006

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Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An unspecified boundary error in WINWORD.EXE when processing Word documents can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted document.

NOTE: The vulnerability is being actively exploited.

2) An unspecified boundary error within the parsing of certain strings can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted document.

3) An unspecified boundary error within the handling of mail merge files can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted document.

4) An unspecified error within the parsing of certain strings can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted document.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitary code.

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