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Microsoft PowerPoint Freelance Layout Parsing Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA35184
Release Date: 2009-06-10
Popularity: 1,610 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002

Binary Analysis: BA756 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an array-indexing error in the Microsoft PowerPoint Freelance Windows 2.1 Translator (FL21WIN.DLL) when parsing layout information and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: On systems with MS09-017 applied, support for Freelance files is disabled by default, but can be re-enabled via a key in the registry.

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