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CVE-2006-2492

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allow

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Listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

This vulnerability affects Microsoft Word in several older Microsoft Office releases, along with certain Microsoft Works Suite editions from around 2006. An attacker who tricks a user into opening a specially crafted document could run malicious code on the affected computer.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 17

docs.microsoft.com

oval.cisecurity.org

isc.sans.org

osvdb.org

microsoft.com

us-cert.gov

vupen.com

securityfocus.com

secunia.com

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

kb.cert.org

securitytracker.com

blogs.technet.com