Microsoft Office 2000/2001/2003/2004 Document memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2000/2001/2003/2004 and classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function of the component Document Handler. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-3434. There is no exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Office 2000/2001/2003/2004 (Office Suite Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Document Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string that triggers memory corruption.

The bug was discovered 10/10/2006. The weakness was shared 10/10/2006 by Dejun Meng (Sowhat) with Fortinet as MS06-062 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is available at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-3434 since 07/07/2006. The attack needs to be initiated within the local network. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2682 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22535 (MS06-062: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (922581)), 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 110044 (Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS06-062)).

Applying the patch MS06-062 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at windowsupdate.microsoft.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (29214), Tenable (22535), SecurityFocus (BID 20382†), OSVDB (29429†) and Secunia (SA22339†). The entries VDB-2595, VDB-2597 and VDB-2596 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 22535
Nessus Name: MS06-062: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (922581)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS06-062
Researcher: Dejun Meng (Sowhat)
Organization: Fortinet
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-3434 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3434
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2594

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X-Force: 29214
SecurityFocus: 20382 - Microsoft Office Improper Memory Access Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 22339 - Microsoft Office Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 29429 - Microsoft Office mso.dll Malformed Record Handling Arbitrary Code Execution
SecurityTracker: 1017034
Vulnerability Center: 12886 - [MS06-062] Microsoft Office Crafted String Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-3981

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/11/2006 10:43
Updated: 04/24/2026 05:29
Changes: 10/11/2006 10:43 (102), 07/09/2019 09:38 (1), 01/20/2025 23:41 (17), 04/24/2026 05:29 (1)
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