CVE-2011-0656 Information

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.\

Reference

http://osvdb.org/71770 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517482/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47251 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025340 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0941 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-125 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-022 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11761