CVE-2009-1130: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 39.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, and PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted structure in a Notes container in a PowerPoint file that causes PowerPoint to read more data than was allocated when creating a C++ object, leading to an overwrite of a function pointer, aka "Heap Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

  • Microsoft Office: version 2004 only
  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint: version 2002 only; version 2003 only

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