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CVE-2011-0656

Published: Apr 13, 2011

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; PowerPoint Viewer; PowerPoint Viewer 2007 SP2; and PowerPoint Web App do not properly validate PersistDirectoryEntry records in PowerPoint documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Slide with a malformed record, which triggers an exception and later use of an unspecified method, aka "Persist Directory RCE Vulnerability."

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11761
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
MS11-022
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MS
TA11-102A
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_CERT
1025340
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
47251
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
ADV-2011-0941
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
71770
vdb-entry
x_refsource_OSVDB

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