Thursday, June 15, 2006

Security Alert: Vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint

When PowerPoint opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file using a malformed record, it may corrupt system memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less affected than users who operate with administrative user rights.

See the original bulletin here .

Read more at www.ciac.org/ciac/bulle...

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