CVE-2011-0979

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-0979
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-02-10 19:00:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-12 21:59:00 UTC
DescriptionMicrosoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Excel - - x64 All
Application Microsoft Excel 2002 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Excel 2003 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Excel 2007 sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Excel 2010 All All All
Application Microsoft Excel - - x64 All
Application Microsoft Excel 2002 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Excel 2003 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Excel 2007 sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Excel 2010 All All All
Application Microsoft Excel Viewer - sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Excel Viewer - sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Office 2004 All mac All
Application Microsoft Office 2008 All mac All
Application Microsoft Office 2011 All mac All
Application Microsoft Office 2004 All mac All
Application Microsoft Office 2008 All mac All
Application Microsoft Office 2011 All mac All
Application Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack 2007 sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack 2007 sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Open Xml File Format Converter All All mac All
Application Microsoft Open Xml File Format Converter All All mac All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Microsoft Office Excel OfficeArt Container Parsing Vulnerability - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
SecurityTracker: Microsoft Excel Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-021 - Important | Microsoft Docs MS docs.microsoft.com
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA11-102A -- Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Zero Day Initiative MISC zerodayinitiative.com
TippingPoint | DVLabs | ZDI Public Disclosure: Microsoft MISC dvlabs.tippingpoint.com
70904 OSVDB osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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