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CVE-2011-0979

CVE information

Published

12 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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Description

Microsoft 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.".

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
9.3/10
Exploit Score
8.6/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:*:*:mac:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:-:-:x64:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:sp2:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:-:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2010:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2011:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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