National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0656

Overview

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; PowerPoint Viewer; PowerPoint Viewer 2007 SP2; and PowerPoint Web App do not properly validate PersistDirectoryEntry records in PowerPoint documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Slide with a malformed record, which triggers an exception and later use of an unspecified method, aka "Persist Directory RCE Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA11-102A

Name: TA11-102A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS11-022

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-022.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-125

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-125

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0941

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0941

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025340

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025340

External Source: BID

Name: 47251

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47251

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20110412 ZDI-11-125: Microsoft Office PowerPoint PersistDirectoryEntry Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/517482/100/0/threaded

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11761

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11761

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 71770

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/71770

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11761

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11761