MS06-038: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (917284)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22032

Synopsis

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Microsoft Office.

Description

The remote host is running a version of Microsoft Office that could allow arbitrary code to be run on this host.

To succeed, the attacker would have to send a rogue file to a user of the remote computer and have him open it with Microsoft Office.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Office 2000, XP and 2003.

See Also

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2006/ms06-038

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22032

File Name: smb_nt_ms06-038.nasl

Version: 1.43

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 7/11/2006

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office, cpe:/a:microsoft:word, cpe:/a:microsoft:word_viewer, cpe:/a:microsoft:excel, cpe:/a:microsoft:excel_viewer, cpe:/a:microsoft:powerpoint, cpe:/a:microsoft:visio, cpe:/a:microsoft:access, cpe:/a:microsoft:frontpage, cpe:/a:microsoft:infopath, cpe:/a:microsoft:onenote, cpe:/a:microsoft:outlook, cpe:/a:microsoft:publisher, cpe:/a:microsoft:project

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2006

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1316, CVE-2006-1318, CVE-2006-1540, CVE-2006-2389

BID: 18911, 18889, 18912

CWE: 94

CERT: 409316, 580036, 609868

MSFT: MS06-038

MSKB: 917150, 917151, 917152, 917284