PT-2006-4334 · Microsoft · Office Powerpoint+1

Sowhat · Published 2006-08-08 · Updated 2018-10-18 · CVE-2006-3449

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft PowerPoint versions 2000 through 2003

Description A remote code execution issue exists in PowerPoint, potentially due to a buffer overflow, which could be exploited when a file containing a malformed record is parsed by PowerPoint. This could occur through a specially crafted PowerPoint file, possibly included in an e-mail attachment or hosted on a malicious web site, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Recommendations For Microsoft PowerPoint versions 2000 through 2003, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-3449

Affected Products

Office Powerpoint

Office Visio

References · 15

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3449 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-048 · Vendor Advisory
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3449 · Security Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/884252 · Patch
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016657 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/442592/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A348 · Note
• http://secway.org/advisory/AD20060808.txt · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/442592/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/19341 · Note
• http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:348 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1342 · Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/MS06-048 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3449 · Note