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.
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Vulnerabilities reported by naveed afzal
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2006-07-15 : Initial release
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