Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Microsoft Office and Microsoft PowerPoint - CVE-2009-0221

 

Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Microsoft Office and Microsoft PowerPoint - CVE-2009-0221

Published: December 20, 2016 / Updated: March 16, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU1405
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-0221
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to stack-based buffer overflow when handling malformed PowerPoint files. A remote attacker can create a specially PowerPoint file containing an invalid record type, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Affected software

Microsoft Office
Microsoft PowerPoint

How to mitigate CVE-2009-0221



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