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Microsoft Office Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (2027452)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

13 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS10-038.

Insight

Insight

These issues are caused by memory corruption and buffer overflow errors when parsing certain objects or records in a specially crafted Excel document.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Microsoft Office Excel 2002 Service Pack 3 Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 3 Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Service Pack 1/2 Microsoft Office Excel Viewer Service Pack 1/2

Solution

Solution

The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for more information.