CVE-2006-5994 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2006-5994?

CVE-2006-5994 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 6 Dec 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for Mac, and Works 2004, 2005, and 2006 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a malformed string that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6456.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5994?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word Viewer, Microsoft Works.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5994?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5994 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2006-5994 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5994 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-p3mj-fq4c-ffqj.