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CVE-2009-0226

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2009-05-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the PowerPoint 4.2 conversion filter in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format, leading to memory corruption, aka "Legacy File Format Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0222, CVE-2009-0223, CVE-2009-0227, and CVE-2009-1137.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Office Powerpoint

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References