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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2006-5296 json

PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2003 does not properly handle a container object whose position value exceeds the record length, which allow…

published 2006-10-16 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5281

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
27.0%
EPSS 27.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2003 does not properly handle a container object whose position value exceeds the record length, which allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a crafted PowerPoint (.PPT) file, as demonstrated by Nanika.ppt, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3435, CVE-2006-3876, CVE-2006-3877, and CVE-2006-4694. NOTE: the impact of this issue was originally claimed to be arbitrary code execution, but later analysis demonstrated that this was erroneous.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-2523)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

26.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-2523 Microsoft Office 2003 - '.PPT' Local Buffer Overflow (PoC) dos, 2006-10-12
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20495 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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