CVE-2006-5296: microsoft powerpoint
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2006-5296 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in microsoft powerpoint. EPSS estimates a 26.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.
Timeline
- 16-10-2006PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
26.98%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
98%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 26.98% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
2 foundExploit Reference (securityfocus.com)
Maturity: unknown
Microsoft Office 2003 - '.PPT' Local Buffer Overflow (PoC)
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Microsoft1 product
- powerpoint2003
1 vendor · 1 product
References
11 links- research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.htmlX Refsource MISC
- blogs.technet.com/msrc/…X Refsource CONFIRM