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PowerPoint Viewer OCX ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA25092
Release Date: 2007-05-02
Last Update: 2007-05-10
Popularity: 9,364 views

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

Software:PowerPoint Viewer OCX ActiveX Control 3.x

Binary Analysis: BA117 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
shinnai has discovered some vulnerabilities in PowerPoint Viewer OCX, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the PowerPoint Viewer ActiveX control (PowerPointViewer.ocx). These can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows via overly long arguments passed to certain methods (e.g. "HttpDownloadFile()" or "OpenWebFile()").

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code when a user visits a malicious website.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 3.1.0.3. Other versions may also be affected.

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