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CVE-2011-0656

CVE information

Published

11 years ago

Last Modified

4 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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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.".

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
9.3/10
Exploit Score
8.6/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:*:*:mac:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2010:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint_web_app:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:sp2:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint_viewer:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_powerpoint_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2011:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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