CVE-2009-0226

Microsoft Office PowerPoint <4.2 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the PowerPoint 4.2 conversion filter in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format, leading to memory corruption, aka "Legacy File Format Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0222, CVE-2009-0223, CVE-2009-0227, and CVE-2009-1137.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34881
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32428
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1290
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6106
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022205
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_idefense
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=789
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-132A.html

Scores

EPSS 0.3479
EPSS Percentile 98.2%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (3)
microsoft/office_powerpoint 2000 sp3
microsoft/office_powerpoint 2002 sp3
microsoft/office_powerpoint 2003 sp3
Published May 12, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026