PowerPoint Viewer PowerPointViewer.ocx ActiveX control buffer overflow
| office-powerpoint-ocx-bo (34013) |  High Risk |
Description:
The Office OCX PowerPoint Viewer ActiveX control is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web page that passes an overly long argument to the HttpDownloadFile() or OpenWebFile() method, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the victim's browser to crash.
Platforms Affected:
- Office OCX, PowerPoint Viewer OCX 3.1.0.3 and prior
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- MoAxB #01, PowerPointViewer.ocx 3.1 multiple methods DoS at http://moaxb.blogspot.com/2007/05/moaxb-01-powerpointviewerocx-31.html.
- Office OCX Web site, PowerPoint Viewer OCX at http://www.officeocx.com/PowerPoint-Viewer-OCX.htm.
- BID-23733: Office OCX PowerPoint Viewer ActiveX Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2007-2494: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the PowerPointOCX ActiveX control in PowerPointViewer.ocx 3.1.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer 7 crash) via a long (1) DoOleCommand, (2) FTPDownloadFile, (3) FTPUploadFile, (4) HttpUploadFile, (5) Save, (6) SaveWebFile, (7) HttpDownloadFile, (8) Open, or (9) OpenWebFile property value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
- SA25092: PowerPoint Viewer OCX ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-1612: Office OCX PowerPoint Viewer Multiple Method Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Reported:
May 01, 2007
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