CVE-2006-5296
MEDIUMEPSS 98th pctlDescription
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 v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
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/22394
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017059
- http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553
- http://www.osvdb.org/29720
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20495
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4031
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29507
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2523
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