CVE-2011-0656
CRITICAL
9.3
CVSS Severity Score
Vulnerability Description
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."
Affected Platforms (CPE)
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Microsoft
Office
= 2004📦
Microsoft
Office
= 2008📦
Microsoft
Office
= 2011📦
Microsoft
Office Compatibility Pack
= 2007📦
Microsoft
Office Powerpoint Viewer
All versions📦
Microsoft
Open Xml File Format Converter
All versions📦
Microsoft
Powerpoint
= 2002📦
Microsoft
Powerpoint
= 2003📦
Microsoft
Powerpoint
= 2007📦
Microsoft
Powerpoint
= 2010📦
Microsoft
Powerpoint Viewer
= 2007📦
Microsoft