Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 6, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-5994
CVE-2006-5994
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.
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Affected products
13- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word_viewer:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
17- secunia.com/advisories/23232nvdVendor Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4866nvdVendor Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928nvdUS Government Resource
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.htmlnvdUS Government Resource
- blogs.securiteam.comnvd
- blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspxnvd
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.computerworld.com/action/article.donvd
- www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspxnvd
- www.osvdb.org/30824nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453735/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453906/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454061/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21451nvd
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-014nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30738nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A238nvd
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