Record summary

CVE-2006-5296 has a selected CVSS score of 4.3; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

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.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBMicrosoft Office 2003 - '.PPT' Local Buffer Overflow (PoC)ExploitDB exploitby NanikaNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

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