CVE-2006-3656

high

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause memory corruption via a crafted PowerPoint file, which triggers the corruption when the file is closed. NOTE: due to the lack of available details as of 20060717, it is unclear how this is related to CVE-2006-3655, CVE-2006-3660, and CVE-2006-3590, although it is possible that they are all different.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27782

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27781

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2815

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19229

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440867/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440370/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440108/100/0/threaded

http://secunia.com/advisories/21061

http://packetstormsecurity.org/0607-exploits/mspp-poc3.txt

http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/PP2003sp2patched_fr_exploit-method.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-07-18

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.20524