CVE-2011-0656

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

13/04/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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."

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

9.30

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2011::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_powerpoint_viewer::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:::mac:::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2002:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2003:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2010:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint_viewer:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint_web_app::::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2011::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_powerpoint_viewer::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:::mac:::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2002:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2003:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2010:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint_viewer:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint_web_app::::::::

CVE-2011-0656

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools