CVE-2009-0221
Integer overflow in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PowerPoint…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 37.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PowerPoint file containing a crafted record type for "collaboration information for different slides" that contains a field that specifies a large number of records, which triggers an under-allocated buffer and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Integer Overflow Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 37.9% · top 1.4% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 34835 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6127 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 54394 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 32428 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1290 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MS09-017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 1022205 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- TA09-132A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 20090512 Microsoft PowerPoint Integer Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_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-2009-0229 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-0221)Record last updated .