CVE-2006-5296
PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2003 does not properly handle a container object whose position value exceeds the record length, which…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 27.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Office 2003 - '.PPT' Local Buffer Overflow (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 2523dos, windowspublished 12 Oct 2006Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 2523 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 27.0% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- ADV-2006-4031 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1017059 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193302553 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 29720 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 22394 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 2523 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/11/10/follow-up-information-on-weblog-posting-about-poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- powerpoint-presentation-bo(29507) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20495 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-5281 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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