National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0226
Original release date:05/12/2009
Last revised:05/15/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Stack-based buffer overflow in the PowerPoint 4.2 conversion filter in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format, leading to memory corruption, aka "Legacy File Format Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0222, CVE-2009-0223, CVE-2009-0227, and CVE-2009-1137.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-132A
Name: TA09-132A
External Source: MS
Name: MS09-017
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1290
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022205
External Source: BID
Name: 34881
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32428
External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20090512 Microsoft PowerPoint 4.2 Conversion Filter Stack Overflow