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CVE-2006-1540

high · 9.3

MSO.DLL in Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP (2002), and Office 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code via multiple attack vectors, as originally demonstrated using a crafted document record with a malformed string, as demonstrated by replacing a certain "01 00 00 00" byte sequence with an "FF FF FF FF" byte sequence, possibly causing an invalid array index, in (1) an Excel .xls document, which triggers an access violation in ole32.dll; (2) an Excel .xlw document, which triggers an access violation in excel.exe; (3) a Word document, which triggers an access violation in mso.dll in winword.exe; and (4) a PowerPoint document, which triggers an access violation in powerpnt.txt. NOTE: after the initial disclosure, this issue was demonstrated by triggering an integer overflow using an inconsistent size for a Unicode "Sheet Name" string.

9.3
CVSS
28.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2006-03-30
Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

CWE-94

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftofficeall versions
microsoftoffice2000
microsoftoffice2000
microsoftoffice2000
microsoftoffice2000
microsoftoffice2000
microsoftoffice2000
microsoftoffice2003
microsoftoffice2003
microsoftoffice2003
microsoftoffice2004
microsoftofficev.x
microsoftofficexp
microsoftofficexp
microsoftofficexp

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