CVE-2009-0221: Microsoft Office PowerPoint

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 37.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PowerPoint file containing a crafted record type for "collaboration information for different slides" that contains a field that specifies a large number of records, which triggers an under-allocated buffer and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Integer Overflow Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office PowerPoint: version 2002 only; version 2003 only

Published 2009-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.