CVE-2011-0656

Microsoft PowerPoint - Remote Code Execution via Malformed PersistDirectoryEntry Record

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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."

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11761
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025340
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-125
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47251
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0941
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/71770
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517482/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.2960
EPSS Percentile 98.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (12)
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/office 2011
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack 2007 sp2
microsoft/office_powerpoint_viewer
microsoft/open_xml_file_format_converter
microsoft/powerpoint 2002 sp3
microsoft/powerpoint 2003 sp3
microsoft/powerpoint 2007 sp2
microsoft/powerpoint 2010
... and 2 more
Published Apr 13, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026