VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2009-0556
CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability67.31%
CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability
Published2009-04-03
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Known Exploited Vulnerability
Microsoft Office PowerPoint Code Injection Vulnerability
Vendor / product: Microsoft / Office
Description
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3, and PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PowerPoint file with an OutlineTextRefAtom containing an an invalid index value that triggers memory corruption, as exploited in the wild in April 2009 by Exploit:Win32/Apptom.gen, aka "Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Weakness classification
- CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Primary references
- secure@microsoft.com — Vendor Advisory
- secure@microsoft.com — Vendor Advisory
- secure@microsoft.com — Vendor Advisory
- secure@microsoft.com — Broken Link
- secure@microsoft.com — Vendor Advisory
- secure@microsoft.com — US Government Resource
- secure@microsoft.com — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- secure@microsoft.com — Broken Link
- secure@microsoft.com — Broken Link
- secure@microsoft.com — Broken Link
- secure@microsoft.com — US Government Resource
- secure@microsoft.com — Vendor Advisory