National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3864
Original release date:10/10/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in mso.dll in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, XP, and 2003, allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed record in a (1) .DOC, (2) .PPT, or (3) .XLS file that triggers memory corruption, related to an "array boundary condition" (possibly an array index overflow), a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3434, CVE-2006-3650, and CVE-2006-3868.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#176556
Name: VU#176556
External Source: MS
Name: MS06-062
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 20384
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBST02161
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20061011 Microsoft Office Malformed Record Memory Corruption Vulnerability
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 29429
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3981
External Source: MSKB
Name: 922581
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secway.org/advisory/AD20061010.txt
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017034
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22339
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:632
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:632
Type: Tool Signature