CVE-2009-0556
highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.673 · 99 %ileEUUSadded 2026-01-07remediate by 2026-01-28
required action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Microsoft Office PowerPoint Code Injection Vulnerability
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3, and PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PowerPoint file with an OutlineTextRefAtom containing an an invalid index value that triggers memory corruption, as exploited in the wild in April 2009 by Exploit:Win32/Apptom.gen, aka "Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
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affected products (5)
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references (37)
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- http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2009/04/02/new-0-day-exploits-using-powerpoint-files.aspxenisa_euvd
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/04/02/microsoft-security-advisory-969136.aspxenisa_euvd
- http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/04/02/investigating-the-new-powerpoint-issue.aspxenisa_euvd
- http://osvdb.org/53182enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34572enisa_euvd
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/627331enisa_euvd
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/969136.mspxenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503453/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
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