CVE

Id
1454  
CVE No.
CVE-1999-1474  
Status
Candidate  
Description
PowerPoint 95 and 97 allows remote attackers to cause an application to be run automatically without prompting the user, possibly through the slide show, when the document is opened in browsers such as Internet Explorer.  
Phase
Proposed (20010912)  
Votes
ACCEPT(6) Armstrong, Cole, Foat, Frech, Stracener, Wall  
Comments
Frech> Looks like CONFIRM URL is too old for Microsoft to keep | (currently cached at | http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:86loHcRhaL4:www.microsoft.com/ie/ | security/powerpoint.htm+%22PowerPoint+Browsing+Security+Issue%22&hl=en | ). Same information is available at BugTraq at | http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&mid=6724