>> Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation Handling Multiple Memory Corruption and DoS Vulnerabilities
Title : Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation Handling Multiple Memory Corruption and DoS Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2815 CVE ID : CVE-2006-3655 - CVE-2006-3656 - CVE-2006-3660
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-07-15
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Microsoft PowerPoint, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system or cause a denial of service. These flaws are due to memory corruption errors when opening, closing, or saving a malformed presentation, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
Note : Proof of concept exploits have been published.
