CVE-2011-0656
highpriority · attend · 47EPSS 0.296 · 98 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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."
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.
affected products (13)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- microsoft office compatibility pack= 2007nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- microsoft office powerpoint viewerall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_powerpoint_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- microsoft open xml file format converterall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
also known as (3)
Other names and identifiers for this entity.
sources
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references (20)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39903cnnvd
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-022.mspxcnnvd
- http://osvdb.org/71770enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517482/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47251enisa_euvd
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025340enisa_euvd
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0941enisa_euvd
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