PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2003 does not properly handle a container object whose position value exceeds the record length, which allows

Summary

PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2003 does not properly handle a container object whose position value exceeds the record length, which allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a crafted PowerPoint (.PPT) file, as demonstrated by Nanika.ppt, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3435, CVE-2006-3876, CVE-2006-3877, and CVE-2006-4694. NOTE: the impact of this issue was originally claimed to be arbitrary code execution, but later analysis demonstrated that this was erroneous.

Timeline

1. Oct 12, 2006Public exploit on Exploit-DB

   EDB-2523

2. Oct 16, 2006, 7:00 PM UTCCVE published
3. Aug 7, 2024, 7:48 PM UTCRecord last updated
4. Oct 28, 2026EPSS reached 10%

   FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

• n/a n/a

  Version range not reported

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