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CVE-2006-2492

Published: May 20, 2006

Modified: Oct 22, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_MS

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2068

vdb-entry

signature

x_refsource_OVAL

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1345

x_refsource_MISC

vdb-entry

x_refsource_OSVDB

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/919637.mspx

x_refsource_CONFIRM

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1738

vdb-entry

signature

x_refsource_OVAL

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1346

x_refsource_MISC

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_CERT

vdb-entry

x_refsource_VUPEN

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

word-code-execution(26556)

vdb-entry

x_refsource_XF

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_CERT-VN

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1418

vdb-entry

signature

x_refsource_OVAL

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_CERT

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/05/19/429353.aspx

x_refsource_MISC

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