National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5296

Overview

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.

Impact

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External Source: XF

Name: powerpoint-presentation-bo(29507)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29507

External Source: BID

Name: 20495

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20495

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 29720

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/29720

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 2523

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2523

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553

Hyperlink:http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-4031

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/4031

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017059

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017059

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22394

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22394

External Source: MISC

Name: http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html

Hyperlink:http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/11/10/follow-up-information-on-weblog-posting-about-poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx

Hyperlink:http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/11/10/follow-up-information-on-weblog-posting-about-poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx

Hyperlink:http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 2523

Hyperlink:http://milw0rm.com/exploits/2523