CVE-2006-3435

Critical

Description

PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac does not properly parse the slide notes field in a document, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in this field, which triggers an erroneous object pointer calculation that uses data from within the document. NOTE: this issue is different than other PowerPoint vulnerabilities including CVE-2006-4694.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMicrosoft Office
PublishedOct 10, 2006
First seenOct 10, 2006

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
microsoft office2000, 2003, 2004, v.x, xp—

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