FKIE_CVE-2006-5296
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-10-16 19:07 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:30
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | powerpoint | 2003 |
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