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Vulnerability details

Microsoft has released 1 security bulletins to fix newly discovered flaws in their software. Qualys has released the following checks for these new vulnerabilities:

• Microsoft Office PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS09-017)

  Severity

  Urgent 5

  Qualys ID

  110094

  Vendor Reference

  MS09-017

  CVE Reference

  CVE-2009-0220, CVE-2009-0221, CVE-2009-0222, CVE-2009-0223, CVE-2009-0224, CVE-2009-0225, CVE-2009-0226, CVE-2009-0227, CVE-2009-0556, CVE-2009-1128, CVE-2009-1129, CVE-2009-1130, CVE-2009-1131, CVE-2009-1137

  CVSS Scores

  Base 9.3 / Temporal 7.7

  Description

  Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office Suite.

  Previously Microsoft has identified this as a zero day vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint.

  The application is prone to the following vulnerabilities that are caused due to the way it handles specially crafted PowerPoint files.

  - A file format vulnerability exists in the way that PowerPoint reads paragraph formatting data from specially crafted PowerPoint 4.0 files. (CVE-2009-0220)

  - Multiple integer overflow and memory corruption vulnerabilities exist in the way PowerPoint reads an invalid record type in a specially crafted PowerPoint file allowing memory corruption and code execution. (CVE-2009-0221, CVE-2009-0224)

  - Multiple file format vulnerabilities exist in the way PowerPoint reads sound data from specially crafted PowerPoint 4.0 files. (CVE-2009-0222, CVE-2009-0223, CVE-2009-0226, CVE-2009-0227, CVE-2009-1137)

  - Multiple PP7 memory corruption vulnerabilities exists in the way PowerPoint reads sound data from specially crafted PowerPoint 95 files and older PowerPoint 95 formatted files. (CVE-2009-0225, CVE-2009-1128, CVE-2009-1129)

  - A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the way PowerPoint accesses an invalid object in memory when parsing a specially crafted PowerPoint file. (CVE-2009-0556)

  - A heap corruption vulnerability exists in the way PowerPoint reads a malformed structure value in a specially crafted PowerPoint file. (CVE-2009-1130)

  - A data out of bounds vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Office PowerPoint reads data that is too large in a specially crafted PowerPoint file. (CVE-2009-1131)

  Microsoft has released a security update that addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that PowerPoint handles conditions that could cause memory corruption when opening specially crafted PowerPoint files.

  Affected Software:
  Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000
  Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002
  Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
  Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
  Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003
  Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007
  Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack

  Consequence

  Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to cause memory corruption and run arbitrary code as the logged-on user. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take complete control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

  Solution

  Patch:
  Following are links for downloading patches to fix the vulnerabilities:

  Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 Service Pack 3)

  Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 Service Pack 3)

  Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 3)

  2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 1 (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Service Pack 1)

  2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 2 (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Service Pack 2)

  PowerPoint Viewer 2003

  PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Service Pack 1 and PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Service Pack 2

  Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Service Pack 1

  Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Service Pack 2

  Refer to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-017 for further details.

  Workarounds:
  Workaround for all CVE-IDs:
  Avoid opening Office files received from un-trusted sources.

  Workarounds for CVE-2009-0221, CVE-2009-0224, CVE-2009-0556, CVE-2009-1130:
  1) Use the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) when opening files from unknown or un-trusted sources because it protects Office 2003 installations by more securely opening Word, Excel, and PowerPoint binary format files.

  Impact of workaround: Office 2003 and earlier formatted documents that are converted to the 2007 Microsoft Office System Open XML format by MOICE lose their macro functionality. Documents protected with passwords and Digital Rights Management cannot be converted.

  2) Microsoft Office File Block policy should be used to block the opening of Office 2003 and earlier documents from unknown or untrusted sources.

  Impact of workaround: If File Block policy is configured without special "exempt directory" configuration (see KB922848), Office 2003 files or earlier versions will not open in Office 2003 or 2007 Microsoft Office System.

  Workaround for CVE-2009-0220, CVE-2009-0222, CVE-2009-0223, CVE-2009-0226, CVE-2009-0227, CVE-2009-1137:
  Restrict access to pp4x322.dll in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 or Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002

  Impact of workaround: It will prevent PowerPoint 4.0 files from being opened

  Workaround for CVE-2009-0225, CVE-2009-1128, CVE-2009-1129:
  Restrict access to pp7x32.dll in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 or Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002

  Impact of workaround: It will prevent PowerPoint 95 files from being opened

  Details on the workarounds can be found at MS09-017.

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