Microsoft OLE Remote Code Execution CVE-2014-6352 (October 22, 2014)
Microsoft has released a security advisory related to CVE-2014-6352 and Dell Sonicwall Research team has researched this vulnerability and released GAV signatures for it.
This vulnerability can be exploited through a specially crafted Microsoft Office file that contains an OLE object. A successful attack would result in remote code execution in the security context of the current user.
Following is the signature set which protects users against this attack.
- GAV:17321 Malformed.pps.OT.1
- GAV:36010 Malformed.pps.OT.2
- GAV:36017 Malformed.pps.OT.3
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