CVE-2006-5296

high

Description

PowerPoint 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.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2523

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29507

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4031

http://www.osvdb.org/29720

http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017059

http://secunia.com/advisories/22394

http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/11/10/follow-up-information-on-weblog-posting-about-poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-10-16

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.24954