Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-058 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution (924163)

This bulletin addresses 4 different important to critical vulnerabilities affecting all versions of PowerPoint including Mac except the PowerPoint *viewer* for 2003. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker who creates a malformed PPT file to take over and execute arbitrary code on a victim’s computer that opens the PPT using PowerPoint. Since exploit details are public and actively being used in real attacks you will want to deploy this update as soon as possible. Until the update is deployed you should consider quarantining PPT files sent in emails and blocking them at web proxy gateways if possible.

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