Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/Xp memory corruption

CVSS Meta Temp Score
CVSS is a standardized scoring system to determine possibilities of attacks. The Temp Score considers temporal factors like disclosure, exploit and countermeasures. The unique Meta Score calculates the average score of different sources to provide a normalized scoring system.
Current Exploit Price (≈)
Our analysts are monitoring exploit markets and are in contact with vulnerability brokers. The range indicates the observed or calculated exploit price to be seen on exploit markets. A good indicator to understand the monetary effort required for and the popularity of an attack.
CTI Interest Score
Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks. The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.
6.6$0-$5k0.00

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/Xp and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-0029. No exploit exists. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/Xp (Office Suite Software). This issue affects an unknown part. 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 Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed description, which leads to memory corruption.

The bug was discovered 03/14/2006. The weakness was disclosed 03/14/2006 by Dejun Meng with Microsoft (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-0029 since 11/30/2005. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2472 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21078 (MS06-012: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (905413)), 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 90303 (Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS06-012)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published 11 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (25342), Tenable (21078), SecurityFocus (BID 15780†), OSVDB (23900†) and Secunia (SA19138†). The entries VDB-2083, VDB-2084, VDB-2554 and VDB-29209 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

Vendor

Name

Version

License

Website

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.6

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.6
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

AVACAuCIA
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
VectorComplexityAuthenticationConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock

VulDB Base Score: 🔍
VulDB Temp Score: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 🔍

Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Proof-of-Concept

EPSS Score: 🔍
EPSS Percentile: 🔍

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔍

0-DayUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
TodayUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock

Nessus ID: 21078
Nessus Name: MS06-012: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (905413)
Nessus File: 🔍
Nessus Risk: 🔍
Nessus Family: 🔍
Nessus Context: 🔍

Qualys ID: 🔍
Qualys Name: 🔍

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
Status: 🔍

Reaction Time: 🔍
0-Day Time: 🔍
Exposure Time: 🔍
McAfee IPS: 🔍
McAfee IPS Version: 🔍

Fortigate IPS: 🔍

Timelineinfo

06/07/1999 🔍
11/30/2005 +2368 days 🔍
12/08/2005 +8 days 🔍
03/14/2006 +96 days 🔍
03/14/2006 +0 days 🔍
03/14/2006 +0 days 🔍
03/14/2006 +0 days 🔍
03/14/2006 +0 days 🔍
03/14/2006 +0 days 🔍
03/14/2006 +0 days 🔍
03/15/2006 +0 days 🔍
12/27/2006 +287 days 🔍
03/12/2015 +2997 days 🔍
01/04/2025 +3586 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Dejun Meng
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2006-0029 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-0029
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29207

OVAL: 🔍

CERT: 🔍
X-Force: 25342
SecurityFocus: 15780 - Microsoft Excel Malformed Range Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 19138
OSVDB: 23900 - Microsoft Office Excel Malformed Description Arbitrary Code Execution
SecurityTracker: 1015766
Vulnerability Center: 10656 - [MS06-012] Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution due to Improper Validation of Description Fields, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-0950

See also: 🔍

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 01/04/2025 21:48
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (81), 06/15/2019 15:15 (9), 01/04/2025 21:48 (17)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216:203:103

Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Discussion

No comments yet. Languages: en.

Please log in to comment.

◂ PreviousOverviewNext ▸

Might our Artificial Intelligence support you?

Check our Alexa App!