====================================================================== Secunia Research 09/02/2010 - Microsoft PowerPoint File Path Handling Buffer Overflow - ====================================================================== Table of Contents Affected Software....................................................1 Severity.............................................................2 Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3 Description of Vulnerability.........................................4 Solution.............................................................5 Time Table...........................................................6 Credits..............................................................7 References...........................................................8 About Secunia........................................................9 Verification........................................................10 ====================================================================== 1) Affected Software * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 NOTE: Other versions may also be affected. ====================================================================== 2) Severity Rating: Moderately critical Impact: System compromise Where: Remote ====================================================================== 3) Vendor's Description of Software "Microsoft Office PowerPoint enables users to quickly create high- impact, dynamic presentations, while integrating workflow and ways to easily share information.". Product Link: http://office.microsoft.com/powerpoint ====================================================================== 4) Description of Vulnerability Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error when handling file paths and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code. ====================================================================== 5) Solution Apply patches supplied by MS10-004. ====================================================================== 6) Time Table 20/05/2009 - Vendor notified. 20/05/2009 - Vendor response. 15/09/2009 - Vendor provides status update. 27/10/2009 - Vendor provides status update. 11/01/2010 - Status update requested. 11/01/2010 - Vendor provides status update. 02/02/2010 - Vendor provides status update. 09/02/2010 - Public disclosure. ====================================================================== 7) Credits Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research. ====================================================================== 8) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned CVE-2010-0029 for the vulnerability. ====================================================================== 9) About Secunia Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence relevant to their specific system configuration: http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/ Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory database as a service to the security community and private individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security. http://secunia.com/advisories/ Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the security and reliability of software in general: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below to see currently vacant positions: http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/ Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories: http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/ ====================================================================== 10) Verification Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-28/ Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ ======================================================================