Microsoft Office 2000/2003/XP Document String code injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Microsoft Office 2000/2003/XP (Office Suite Software). This affects an unknown functionality of the component Document String Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 and SP2, Office XP SP3, Office 2000 SP3, and other products, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Office file with malformed string that triggers memory corruption related to record lengths, aka "Microsoft Office Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-2389.

The bug was discovered 07/11/2006. The weakness was disclosed 07/11/2006 by Elia Florio with Microsoft as MS06-038 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). It is possible to read the advisory at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-1316 since 03/20/2006. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2591 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22032 (MS06-038: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (917284)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110035 (Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS06-038)).

Applying the patch MS06-038 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 7197.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (27607), Tenable (22032) and Exploit-DB (1615). The entries 29423, 31237, 31233 and 71337 are pretty similar.

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Nessus ID: 22032
Nessus Name: MS06-038: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (917284)
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Snort ID: 7197
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS06-038
Researcher: Elia Florio
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-1316 (🔍)
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X-Force: 27607 - Microsoft Office string parsing buffer overflow, High Risk
SecurityTracker: 1016469
Vulnerability Center: 12230 - [MS06-038] Microsoft Office Memory Corruption via Malformed String, Medium
SecurityFocus: 18912 - Microsoft Office String Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 21012 - Microsoft Office String and Property Parsing Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 27150 - Microsoft Office MSO.DLL String Processing Overflow
Vupen: ADV-2006-2756

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 07/17/2006 12:39
Updated: 06/22/2019 10:08
Changes: 07/17/2006 12:39 (109), 06/22/2019 10:08 (1)
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