CVE-2006-5296
PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2003 does not properly handle a container object whose position value exceeds the record length, which allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a crafted…
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Description
PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2003 does not properly handle a container object whose position value exceeds the record length, which allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a crafted PowerPoint (.PPT) file, as demonstrated by Nanika.ppt, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3435, CVE-2006-3876, CVE-2006-3877, and CVE-2006-4694. NOTE: the impact of this issue was originally claimed to be arbitrary code execution, but later analysis demonstrated that this was erroneous.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 25.55% probability · 98th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/powerpoint
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/11/10/follow-up-information-on-weblog-posting-about-poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx
- http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22394Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017059
- http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553
- http://www.osvdb.org/29720
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20495Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4031
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29507
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2523
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/11/10/follow-up-information-on-weblog-posting-about-poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx
- http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22394Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017059
- http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553
- http://www.osvdb.org/29720
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20495Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4031
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29507
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2523
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.