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CVE-2006-1540

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Detection and validation

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What it is

Reported

MSO.DLL in Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP (2002), and Office 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code via multiple attack vectors, as originally demonstrated using a crafted document record with a malformed string, as demonstrated by replacing a certain "01 00 00 00" byte sequence with an "FF FF FF FF" byte sequence, possibly causing an invalid array index, in (1) an Excel .xls document, which triggers an access violation in ole32.dll; (2) an Excel .xlw document, which triggers an access violation in excel.exe; (3) a Word document, which tri…

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What is affected

Reported

Microsoft; Office. Product-level identification only; no affected-version conclusion is available from this field.

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Urgency and basis

Reported

Act · 451.0

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Exploitation evidence

Reported

listed by a tracked exploitation catalog · VulnCheck KEV

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What to do

Reported

Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

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