>> Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability (MS06-048)
Title : Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability (MS06-048) VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2795 CVE ID : CVE-2006-3590
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-07-13
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft PowerPoint, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a memory corruption error in the "mso.dll" library when handling a malformed presentation, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
Note : This zero-day vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild by Trojan.PPDropper.B.
ChangeLog 2006-07-13 : Initial release
2006-07-17 : Microsoft Security Advisory (922970) available
2006-08-08 : Updated Solution Vulnerability Management
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