CVE-2006-5296 (GCVE-0-2006-5296)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-10-16 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:48
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Summary
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.
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CWE
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Date Public
2006-10-12 00:00
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