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TITLE:
Microsoft PowerPoint Freelance Layout Parsing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35184

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http://secunia.com/advisories/35184/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft
PowerPoint, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise
a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an array-indexing error in the
Microsoft PowerPoint Freelance Windows 2.1 Translator (FL21WIN.DLL)
when parsing layout information and can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: On systems with MS09-017 applied, support for Freelance files
is disabled by default, but can be re-enabled via a key in the
registry.

SOLUTION:
Microsoft states that no fix will be issued. However, installations
with MS09-017 applied block opening of Freelance files by default.

Users having enabled Freelance file support should not open Freelance
files from untrusted sources.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-29/

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