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CVE-2006-3864 Detail

Current Description

Unspecified vulnerability in mso.dll in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, XP, and 2003, allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed record in a (1) .DOC, (2) .PPT, or (3) .XLS file that triggers memory corruption, related to an "array boundary condition" (possibly an array index overflow), a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3434, CVE-2006-3650, and CVE-2006-3868.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22339 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Vendor Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017034 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://secway.org/advisory/AD20061010.txt CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922581 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/176556 CVE, Microsoft Corporation US Government Resource 
http://www.osvdb.org/29429 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448268/100/0/threaded CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20384 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3981 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Vendor Advisory 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-062 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A632 CVE, Microsoft Corporation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') cwe source acceptance level NIST  
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-3864
NVD Published Date:
10/10/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Microsoft Corporation