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Microsoft PowerPoint OutlineTextRefAtom Parsing Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA34572

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Release Date:

2009-04-03

Last Update:

2009-06-10

Popularity:

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Critical:

Extremely critical

Impact:

System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Partial Fix

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 XP
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Microsoft Powerpoint 2003

Binary Analysis:

BA707 :: Available for 1 Credit

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft PowerPoint, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing certain index values inside OutlineTextRefAtom atoms. This may result in access to an invalid object in memory when parsing a specially crafted PowerPoint file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: According to Microsoft, the vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

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