CVE-2006-5296

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5296
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-10-16 19:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionPowerPoint 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Powerpoint 2003 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Microsoft PowerPoint Invalid Container Object Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Resources | BeyondTrust af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 research.eeye.com
Exploit Exposes PowerPoint Zero-Day Vulnerability -- Security -- InformationWeek af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.informationweek.com
Microsoft Office 2003 - '.PPT' Local Buffer Overflow (PoC) - Windows dos Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
Welcome to the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog! : PoC published for MS Office 2003 PowerPoint af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.technet.com
Welcome to the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog! : Follow up information on weblog posting about PoC published for MS Office 2003 PowerPoint af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.technet.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Microsoft PowerPoint Unspecified Bug May Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
www.osvdb.org/29720 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Microsoft PowerPoint Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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