CVE-2011-3413: microsoft office Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-3413 is a high (CVSS 9.3) Code Injection vulnerability in microsoft office. EPSS estimates a 19.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 14-12-2011
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 SP2; Office 2008 for Mac; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; and PowerPoint Viewer 2007 SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an invalid OfficeArt record in a PowerPoint document, aka "OfficeArt Shape RCE Vulnerability."

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.