CVE-2006-3449
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 through 2003, possibly a buffer overflow, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed record in the BIFF file format used in a PPT file, a different issue than CVE-2006-1540, aka "Microsoft PowerPoint Malformed Record Vulnerability."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)42%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/884252 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/884252Patch
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.htmlPatch
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1342Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016657Advisory
- http://secway.org/advisory/AD20060808.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442592/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19341Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-048