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CVE-2006-5994
published 2006-12-06

CVE-2006-5994: Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for Mac, and Works 2004, 2005, and 2006…

PriorityP270critical9.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCCICAC
ITWVulnCheck KEV
Exploited in the wild
EPSS
31.30%
98.1th percentile
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for Mac, and Works 2004, 2005, and 2006 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a malformed string that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6456.

Affected

11 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microsoftoffice
microsoftoffice
microsoftoffice
microsoftoffice
microsoftword
microsoftword
microsoftword
microsoftword_viewer
microsoftworks
microsoftworks
microsoftworks

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.09.3CRITICALAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
vulncheck9.3CRITICAL
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