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."
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: microsoft
Published: 2009-04-03T18:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2026-01-08T04:55:23.788Z
Reserved: 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2009-0556
Updated: 2024-08-07T04:40:05.099Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2009-04-03T18:30:00.610
Modified: 2026-01-07T19:15:53.077
Link: CVE-2009-0556
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