Advisory Details

April 11th, 2006

Microsoft Windows Address Book (WAB) File Format Parsing Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2006-0014
CVSS SCORE
AFFECTED VENDORS	Microsoft
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	File Format Vulnerability
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the Microsoft Windows operating system. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists during the parsing of malformed Windows Address Book (.WAB) files. Modification of the length value of certain Unicode strings within this file format results in an exploitable heap corruption.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-016.mspx
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2005-09-20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2006-04-11 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Stuart Pearson - Computer Terrorism (UK)

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