Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Informations
Name KB922970 First vendor Publication 2006-07-17
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2006-08-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS06-048 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS06-048. The vulnerability addressed is the Microsoft PowerPoint Mso.dll Vulnerability- CVE-2006-3590.


Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/922970.mspx

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:399
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:399
Title: Microsoft PowerPoint Mso.dll Vulnerability
Description: mso.dll, as used by Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 through 2003, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed shape container in a PPT file that leads to memory corruption, as exploited by Trojan.PPDropper.B, a different issue than CVE-2006-1540 and CVE-2006-3493.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-3590
Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
27324 Microsoft PowerPoint mso.dll PPT Processing Arbitrary Code Execution

Microsoft PowerPoint contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary commands. The issue is triggered when user opens a malicious PowerPoint PPT file that contains via a malformed shape container that leads to memory corruption in the mso.dll. It is possible that the flaw may allow execute arbitrary commands with user privileges resulting in a loss of integrity.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-08-08 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Microsoft Office.
File : smb_nt_ms06-048.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO