Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/Xp Value Read code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/Xp. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Value Read Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to code injection. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-3864. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

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A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/Xp (Office Suite Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Value Read Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 10/10/2006. The weakness was released 10/10/2006 by Sowhat with Nevis Labs as MS06-062 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at microsoft.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-3864 since 07/26/2006. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

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 22539 (MS06-058 / MS06-059 / MS06-0060 / MS06-062: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Allow Remote Code Execution (924163 / 924164 / 924554 / 922581) (Mac OS X)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks 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 (22539), SecurityFocus (BID 20384†), OSVDB (29429†) and Secunia (SA22339†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-2357, VDB-2508, VDB-2571 and VDB-2595. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 22539
Nessus Name: MS06-058 / MS06-059 / MS06-0060 / MS06-062: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Allow Remote Code Execution (924163 / 924164 / 924554 / 922581) (Mac OS X)
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS06-062
Researcher: Sowhat
Organization: Nevis Labs
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-3864 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3864
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2596

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X-Force: 29214
SecurityFocus: 20384 - Microsoft Office Malformed Record 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: 12888 - [MS06-062] Microsoft Office Malformed Record 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 (100), 07/09/2019 09:41 (1), 01/13/2025 06:01 (17), 04/24/2026 05:29 (1)
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