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Microsoft PowerPoint Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA21061

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Release Date:

2006-07-18

Popularity:

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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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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.

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