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CVE-2000-0854
Published: May 7, 2001
Modified: Aug 8, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
When a Microsoft Office 2000 document is launched, the directory of that document is first used to locate DLL's such as riched20.dll and msi.dll, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands by inserting a Trojan Horse DLL into the same directory as the document.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
20000918 Double clicking on MS Office documents from Windows Explorer may execute arbitrary programs in some cases
mailing-list
x_refsource_WIN2KSEC
20000922 Eudora + riched20.dll affects WinZip v8.0 as well
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
1699
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
office-dll-execution(5263)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
20000921 Mitigators for possible exploit of Eudora via Guninski #21,2000
mailing-list
x_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ
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