CVE-2006-6120 (GCVE-0-2006-6120)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-03 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Integer overflow in the KPresenter import filter for Microsoft PowerPoint files (filters/olefilters/lib/klaola.cc) in KOffice before 1.6.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPT file, which results in a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
18 references
Date Public
2006-11-29 00:00
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"value": "NVD-CWE-Other"
}
],
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
},
"redhat_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "Moderate",
"current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:21:10+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2006-6120",
"id": "CVE-2006-6120",
"initial_release_date": "2006-11-29T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:fixed": "20",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "koffice: update to 1.6.1",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2006/cve-2006-6120.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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