CVE - CVE-2006-5296

CVE-ID
CVE-2006-5296	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
BID:20495 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20495 CONFIRM:http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/11/10/follow-up-information-on-weblog-posting-about-poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx EXPLOIT-DB:2523 URL:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2523 MISC:http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx MISC:~~http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html~~ (Obsolete source) MISC:http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553 OSVDB:29720 URL:~~http://www.osvdb.org/29720~~ (Obsolete source) SECTRACK:1017059 URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017059 SECUNIA:22394 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/22394 VUPEN:ADV-2006-4031 URL:~~http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4031~~ (Obsolete source) XF:powerpoint-presentation-bo(29507) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29507
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20061016	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20061016)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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