CVE-2009-1137: Microsoft Office PowerPoint

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 31.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format, leading to memory corruption, aka "Legacy File Format Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0222, CVE-2009-0223, CVE-2009-0226, and CVE-2009-0227.

Affected products

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

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