Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 13, 2011· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2011-0656
CVE-2011-0656
Description
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; PowerPoint Viewer; PowerPoint Viewer 2007 SP2; and PowerPoint Web App do not properly validate PersistDirectoryEntry records in PowerPoint documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Slide with a malformed record, which triggers an exception and later use of an unspecified method, aka "Persist Directory RCE Vulnerability."
Affected products
12- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_powerpoint_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:*:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2010:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint_viewer:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint_web_app:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
9- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0941nvdVendor Advisory
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.htmlnvdUS Government Resource
- osvdb.org/71770nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517482/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/47251nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-125nvd
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-022nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11761nvd
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