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CVE-2011-0656

high · 9.3

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; PowerPoint Viewer; PowerPoint Viewer 2007 SP2; and PowerPoint Web App do not properly validate PersistDirectoryEntry records in PowerPoint documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Slide with a malformed record, which triggers an exception and later use of an unspecified method, aka "Persist Directory RCE Vulnerability."

9.3
CVSS
29.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2011-04-13
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftoffice2004
microsoftoffice2008
microsoftoffice2011
microsoftoffice_compatibility_pack2007
microsoftoffice_powerpoint_viewerall versions
microsoftopen_xml_file_format_converterall versions
microsoftpowerpoint2002
microsoftpowerpoint2003
microsoftpowerpoint2007
microsoftpowerpoint2010
microsoftpowerpoint_viewer2007
microsoftpowerpoint_web_appall versions

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References

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2011-0656