CVE-2006-4694 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2006-4694?

CVE-2006-4694 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 27 Sep 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted record in a PPT file, as exploited by malware such as Exploit:Win32/Controlppt.W, Exploit:Win32/Controlppt.X, and Exploit-PPT.d/Trojan.PPDropper.F. NOTE: it has been reported that the attack vector involves SlideShowWindows.View.GotoNamedShow.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-4694?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2006-4694?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-4694 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2006-4694 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-4694 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q7f2-fp2x-g355.