CVE-2006-3590

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-07-14 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Microsoft PowerPoint for Android: 2000, 2002, 2003, 2003-sp1, 2003-sp2

References

http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=508
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1484
http://secunia.com/advisories/21040
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.ppdropper.b.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016496
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/936945
http://www.osvdb.org/27324
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440137/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440255/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440532/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18957
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html

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