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    CVE-2006-5559

    The Execute method in the ADODB.Connection 2.7 and 2.8 ActiveX control objects (ADODB.Connection.2.7 and ADODB.Connection.2.8) in the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5 SP3, 2.7 SP1, 2.8, and 2.8 SP1 does not properly track freed memory when the second argument is a BSTR, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain strings in the second and third arguments.

    Published:Oct 27, 2006
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Oct 27, 2006
    EPSS Score:0.72601
    CVSS Score:9.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Data Access Components
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows 2000
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows 2003 Server
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows Xp

    Exploits

    http://securitytracker.com/id?1017127http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20704http://securitytracker.com/id?1017127http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20704https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2629

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2012-1891 (CVSS 9.8) — Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 SP1 and SP2 and Windows Data Access …
    CVE-2011-0026 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer signedness error in the SQLConnectW function in an ODBC API (odbc32.dll) in Microsoft Data Access Comp…
    CVE-2011-0027 (CVSS 9.3) — Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 SP1 and SP2, and Windows Data Access Components (WDAC) 6.0, does n…
    CVE-2006-0003 (CVSS 5.1) — Unspecified vulnerability in the RDS.Dataspace ActiveX control, which is contained in ActiveX Data Objects (AD…
    CVE-2003-0903 (CVSS 10) — Buffer overflow in a component of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5 through 2.8 allows remote attack…
    CVE-2003-0353 (CVSS 7.5) — Buffer overflow in a component of SQL-DMO for Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5 through 2.7 allows r…
    CVE-2002-1918 (CVSS 10) — Buffer overflow in Microsoft Active Data Objects (ADO) in Microsoft MDAC 2.5 through 2.7 allows remote attacke…
    CVE-2002-1142 (CVSS 7.5) — Heap-based buffer overflow in the Remote Data Services (RDS) component of Microsoft Data Access Components (MD…
    CVE-2002-0695 (CVSS 7.5) — Buffer overflow in the Transact-SQL (T-SQL) OpenRowSet component of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.…
    CVE-1999-1011 (CVSS 10) — The Remote Data Service (RDS) DataFactory component of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) in IIS 3.x and …

    References

    http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/27/adodb-connection-poc-published.aspx
    http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061027.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22452
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1017127
    http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/589272
    http://www.osvdb.org/31882
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20704
    http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0578
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-009
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29837
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A214
    http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/27/adodb-connection-poc-published.aspx
    http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061027.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22452
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1017127
    http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/589272
    http://www.osvdb.org/31882
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20704
    http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0578
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-009
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29837
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A214

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High