CVE-2006-3449: Microsoft PowerPoint

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 42.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 through 2003, possibly a buffer overflow, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed record in the BIFF file format used in a PPT file, a different issue than CVE-2006-1540, aka "Microsoft PowerPoint Malformed Record Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft PowerPoint: version 2000 only; version 2001 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only

Published 2006-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.