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.
Published: 2006-10-16
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 67.8% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Microsoft Powerpoint
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:48:29.131Z

Reserved: 2006-10-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5296

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-10-16T19:07:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5296

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