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Embedding xls in ppt sounds like a good idea. At the moment, though, the only two use cases I can think of are: (1) Inadvertently generating Powerpoints that a
by erehweb 12y ago
Embedding xls in ppt sounds like a good idea. At the moment, though, the only two use cases I can think of are: (1) Inadvertently generating Powerpoints that are far too large, or (2) Making it easier for attackers to take over your system.
- tracker1 12y agoOLE/COM allowed me to use some flash animations as part of a powerpoint about a decade ago... Also, being able to chart live graphs from excel isn't a bad thing. All of that said, I don't regularly use PowerPoint, and MS has at least been forthcoming with the issue (far better than in the past)
- yuhong 12y agoInterestingly, the use of Flash exploits eventually became common enough (it was used to hack RSA for example I think) that Adobe go out of the way to detect older versions of Office and throw up a warning message.
- tracker1 12y agoYeah, I worked in a company that had a legitimate reason to be able to save state (the local file system) from flash before storage solutions inside of flash (around 4 to 6 iirc) a COM injection bug was used to access the filesystem... after I saw what could be done (COM injection), I promptly disabled flash on my own computers.