Microsoft PowerPoint Memory Corruption Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

Microsoft PowerPoint Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory:	SA21061	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2006-07-18
Popularity:	13,839 views

Critical:	Highly critical
Impact:	DoS System access
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Unpatched

Software:	Microsoft Office 2000 Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003 Microsoft Office XP Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Microsoft Powerpoint 2003

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CVE reference:	CVE-2006-3655 CVE-2006-3656 CVE-2006-3660

Description: naveed has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to the application using data taken directly from a PowerPoint presentation file as a pointer when saving or closing the presentation. This can be exploited to corrupt memory and manipulate the program flow in various ways. Successful exploitation crashes the application and arbitrary code execution may potentially also be possible, but has not currently been proven. The vulnerability has been confirmed on Windows XP SP2 with a fully patched PowerPoint 2003. Other versions may also be affected. NOTE: Two other issues, which can be exploited to crash the application, have also been reported. Solution: Do not open untrusted Office documents. Provided and/or discovered by: naveed

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