Microsoft Office 2003/Xp Smart-Tag Parser memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2003/Xp. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Smart-Tag Parser. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-3868. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2003/Xp (Office Suite Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Smart-Tag Parser. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP and 2003 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed Smart Tag.

The bug was discovered 10/10/2006. The weakness was disclosed 10/10/2006 by Arnaud Dovi as MS06-062 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared at microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-3868 since 07/26/2006. The attack needs to approached within the local network. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. 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. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 4768.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (29214), Tenable (22539), SecurityFocus (BID 20320†), OSVDB (29430†) and Secunia (SA22339†). The entries VDB-2357, VDB-2508, VDB-2571 and VDB-2595 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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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: Arnaud Dovi
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-3868 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3868
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2597

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X-Force: 29214
SecurityFocus: 20320 - Microsoft Office Smart Tag Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 22339 - Microsoft Office Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 29430 - Microsoft Office Malformed Smart Tag Arbitrary Code Execution
SecurityTracker: 1017034
Vulnerability Center: 12889 - [MS06-062] Microsoft Office XP and 2003 Malformed Smart Tag Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-3981

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/11/2006 10:43
Updated: 01/25/2025 16:29
Changes: 10/11/2006 10:43 (100), 07/09/2019 09:46 (1), 01/25/2025 16:29 (17)
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