National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5574
Original release date:12/31/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in the Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker in Microsoft Office 2003 and the Multilingual Interface for Office 2003, Project 2003, and Visio 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted text that is not properly parsed.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
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 unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Solution
If a user were logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.}
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External Source: MS
Name: MS07-001
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 21942
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBST02184
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 31251
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0102
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017486
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23671
