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 when processing a specially crafted PowerPoint file using a malformed record, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by convincing a user to open a malicious Office file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Nicolas Ruff, Fabrice Desclaux, Kostya Kortchinsky, Elia Florio, and Dejun Meng.
ChangeLog
2006-06-13 : Initial release
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