CVE-2006-3435

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 37.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac does not properly parse the slide notes field in a document, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in this field, which triggers an erroneous object pointer calculation that uses data from within the document. NOTE: this issue is different than other PowerPoint vulnerabilities including CVE-2006-4694.

Affected products

Microsoft Office: 2000, 2000-sp1, 2000-sp2, 2000-sp3, 2003, 2003-sp1 (+8)

References

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017030
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/187028
http://www.osvdb.org/29446
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448149/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20304
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3977
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-032.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-058
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A476
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017030
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/187028

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