CVE-2009-0220
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the PowerPoint 4.0 importer (PP4X32.DLL) in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and…
- Published
- Updated
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- microsoft
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the PowerPoint 4.0 importer (PP4X32.DLL) in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted formatting data for paragraphs in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format, related to (1) an incorrect calculation from a record header, or (2) an interget that is used to specify the number of bytes to copy, aka "Legacy File Format Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 37.1% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- 34833 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5610 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20090512 Microsoft PowerPoint PPT 4.0 Importer Multiple Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 32428 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1290 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MS09-017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 1022205 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- TA09-132A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 54386 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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