Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Informations
Name KB919637 First vendor Publication 2005-05-10
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2006-06-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of a vulnerability. We have issued a security bulletin to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review the security bulletin . The vulnerability addressed is the “Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability - CVE-2006-1359”.


Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/919637.mspx

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1178
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1178
Title: IE6 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption (Server 2003)
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1418
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1418
Title: Microsoft Word2003 Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability
Description: Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-2492
Version: 3
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): Microsoft Word
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1657
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1657
Title: IE6 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption (Server 2003,SP1)
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
Version: 4
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1678
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1678
Title: IE 5.01 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
Version: 8
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1702
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1702
Title: IE6 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption (Win2K/XP,SP1)
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
Version: 9
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1738
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1738
Title: Microsoft Word2002 Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability
Description: Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-2492
Version: 3
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): Microsoft Word
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2068
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2068
Title: Microsoft Word2000 Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability
Description: Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-2492
Version: 3
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): Microsoft Word
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:985
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:985
Title: IE6 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption (WinXP)
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows XP
Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3
Application 1
Application 1

SAINT Exploits

Description Link
Internet Explorer createTextRange memory corruption More info here

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
25635 Microsoft Word Unspecified Code Execution

Microsoft Word contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code under the security context of the current user. The issue is triggered due to an unspecified error when processing object pointers. It is possible that the flaw may allow arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.
24050 Microsoft IE createTextRange() Function Arbitrary Code Execution

Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary commands. The issue is triggered due to a memory corruption error when processing a specially crafted "createTextRange()" call associated with a "checkbox" object. It is possible that the flaw may allow attackers to remotely take complete control of an affected system resulting in a loss of integrity.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Word Smart Tags code execution attempt
RuleID : 21677 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Word Smart Tags code execution attempt
RuleID : 21676 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Word Smart Tags code execution attempt
RuleID : 21675 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Word Smart Tags code execution attempt
RuleID : 21674 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 18313 - Revision : 6 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 17781 - Revision : 4 - Type : SPECIFIC-THREATS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 17263 - Revision : 7 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 17262 - Revision : 6 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 17261 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 16690 - Revision : 9 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 16035 - Revision : 12 - Type : BROWSER-IE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-06-13 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Microsoft Word.
File : smb_nt_ms06-027.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-04-11 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the web client.
File : smb_nt_ms06-013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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