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« on: April 06, 2009, 03:44:03 AM »

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A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft PowerPoint, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error that may result in access to an invalid object in memory when parsing a specially crafted PowerPoint file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: According to Microsoft, the vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

http://secunia.com/advisories/34572/
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2009, 09:03:26 PM »

Worth noting that Office 2007 and 2008 are not vulnerable to this.
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