What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5296

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 27.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-10-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft PowerPoint for Android: 2003

References

• http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx
• http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/11/10/follow-up-information-on-weblog-posting-about-poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx
• http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22394
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017059
• http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553
• http://www.osvdb.org/29720
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20495
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4031
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29507
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2523
• http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx

Get alerted when CVE-2006-5296 or the next vulnerability affects your stack