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Microsoft Office PowerPoint Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA31453
Release Date: 2008-08-12
Last Update: 2008-08-21
Popularity: 15,946 views

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

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 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Microsoft Powerpoint 2003

Binary Analysis: BA541 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft PowerPoint, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An integer overflow error when handling CString objects can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted PowerPoint file.

2) A memory calculation error when processing malformed picture indexes can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted PowerPoint file.

3) A memory calculation error when processing list values can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted PowerPoint file.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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