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FKIE_CVE-2006-2492

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-05-20 00:02 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:25

Severity

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
cret@cert.org	http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/05/19/429353.aspx	Broken Link
cret@cert.org	http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1345	Exploit
cret@cert.org	http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1346	Exploit
cret@cert.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/20153	Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cret@cert.org	http://securitytracker.com/id?1016130	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cret@cert.org	http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446012	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cret@cert.org	http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/919637.mspx	Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cret@cert.org	http://www.osvdb.org/25635	Broken Link
cret@cert.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18037	Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cret@cert.org	http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-139A.html	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cret@cert.org	http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-164A.html	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cret@cert.org	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1872	Broken Link
cret@cert.org	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-027	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cret@cert.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26556	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cret@cert.org	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1418	Broken Link
cret@cert.org	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1738	Broken Link
cret@cert.org	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2068	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/05/19/429353.aspx	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1345	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1346	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/20153	Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://securitytracker.com/id?1016130	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446012	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/919637.mspx	Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.osvdb.org/25635	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18037	Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-139A.html	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-164A.html	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1872	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-027	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26556	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1418	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1738	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2068	Broken Link
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2006-2492	US Government Resource

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
microsoft	office	2000
microsoft	office	2003
microsoft	office	2003
microsoft	office	xp
microsoft	works_suite	*

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CVE-2006-2492 (GCVE-0-2006-2492)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-05-20 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-22 00:05

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-07 13:11 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Assigner

certcc mitre root

References

18 references

URL	Tags
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1345	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.osvdb.org/25635	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisor…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1346	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-164A.html	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1872	vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18037	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/20153	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446012	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016130	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-139A.html	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/05/19/…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

Date Public

2006-05-19 00:00

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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