CVE-2011-0976
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; and PowerPoint Viewer 2007 SP2 do not properly handle Office Art containers that have invalid records, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a PowerPoint document with a container that triggers certain access to an uninitialized object, aka "OfficeArt Atom RCE Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 25.5% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0988)
- Published
- February 10, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0988 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / powerpoint
References
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43213
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516233/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025340
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0941
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-044/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-022
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11978
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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