CVE-2006-5296
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 27.0% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5281)
- Published
- October 16, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5281 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / powerpoint
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx
- 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://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22394(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017059
- http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553
- http://www.osvdb.org/29720
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20495(Exploit)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4031
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29507
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2523
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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