Microsoft Office PowerPoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (975416)

Summary
This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS10-004.
Impact
Successful exploitation could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious PPT file. Impact Level: Application
Solution
Run Windows Update and update the listed hotfixes or download and update mentioned hotfixes in the advisory from the below link, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-004.mspx
Insight
Multiple flaws are due to: - Buffer overflow error when handling file paths. - Heap overflow error when processing 'LinkedSlideAtom' records. - Array indexing error when processing 'OEPlaceholderAtom' records with a specially crafted 'placementId' field. - Use-after-free error when processing 'OEPlaceholderAtom' records. - Stack overflow error when processing 'TextBytesAtom' records. - Stack overflow error when processing 'TextCharsAtom' records.
Affected
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 SP 3 and prior. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 SP 3 and prior.
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