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High · 8.8 Known exploited CVE-2006-2492 EUVD-2006-2492GHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978

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

Published May 20, 2006 · Updated Oct 22, 2025 · Assigned by certcc

Description

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.

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