Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on Word 2000, and cause a denial of service on Word 2003, via unknown attack vectors that trigger memory corruption, as exploited by Trojan.Mdropper.W and later by Trojan.Mdropper.X, a different issue than CVE-2006-6456, CVE-2006-5994, and CVE-2006-6561.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Exploit-DB 2
- Microsoft Word 2000 - Code Execution EDB-3260 · local · Feb 3, 2007 · verified
- Microsoft Word 2000 - Malformed Function Code Execution EDB-29524 · remote · Jan 25, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:528 vdb-entry signature
- http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/new_microsoft_word_2000_vulner.html
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2133
- 22225 vdb-entry
- 31900 vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-0350 vdb-entry
- TA07-044A third-party-advisory
- 22328 vdb-entry
- http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-013010-5422-99&tabid=2
- MS07-014 vendor-advisory
- VU#412225 third-party-advisory
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/932114.mspx
- word-document-code-execution(31834) vdb-entry
- http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/multiple_organizations_targett.html
- 23950 third-party-advisory
- 1017564 vdb-entry