National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3435
Original release date:10/10/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac does not properly parse the slide notes field in a document, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in this field, which triggers an erroneous object pointer calculation that uses data from within the document. NOTE: this issue is different than other PowerPoint vulnerabilities including CVE-2006-4694.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#187028
Name: VU#187028
External Source: MS
Name: MS06-058
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-032.html
External Source: BID
Name: 20304
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT061264
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20061010 ZDI-06-032: Microsoft Office PowerPoint Malformed Slide Notes Rebuilding Vulnerability
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 29446
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3977
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017030
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:476
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:476
Type: Tool Signature