Microsoft Office 2003 unspecified PowerPoint NULL pointer dereference denial of service
| powerpoint-presentation-null-dos (29507) |  Low Risk |
Description:
Microsoft Office 2003 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference that can occur when handling malformed PowerPoint presentations. By creating a specially-crafted PowerPoint presentation, a remote attacker could cause the application to crash, if the attacker could persuade the victim to open the file.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 2.8 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 2.5 |
| Exploitability: | Proof-Of-Concept |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of February 6, 2010.
References:
- Microsoft Security Response Center Blog, Friday, November 10, 2006 10:28 PM: Follow up information on weblog posting about PoC published for MS Office 2003 PowerPoint.
- Microsoft Security Response Center Blog, Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:40 PM: PoC published for MS Office 2003 PowerPoint.
- BID-20495: Microsoft PowerPoint Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-5296: 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.
- OSVDB ID: 29720: Microsoft PowerPoint Unspecified Code Execution
- SA22394: Microsoft PowerPoint Invalid Container Object Denial of Service
- SECTRACK ID: 1017059: Microsoft PowerPoint Bug Causes PowerPoint to Crash
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-4031: Microsoft PowerPoint Invalid Container Object Client-Side Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Microsoft Office 2003
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
Reported:
Oct 12, 2006
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