Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft PowerPoint, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Microsoft PowerPoint Unspecified Code Execution Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21040
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21040/
CRITICAL:
Extremely critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office 2000
http://secunia.com/product/24/
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2276/
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2277/
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2275/
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2278/
Microsoft Powerpoint 2003
http://secunia.com/product/5274/
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Viewer
http://secunia.com/product/4033/
Microsoft Office XP
http://secunia.com/product/23/
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
http://secunia.com/product/3052/
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
http://secunia.com/product/2223/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft PowerPoint, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unknown error when parsing
certain strings in a specially crafted document.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
NOTE: The vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.
SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted documents.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered in the wild.
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