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Secunia Advisory SA25995

Microsoft Excel Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA25995
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Release Date 2007-07-10
Last Update 2007-07-13
   
Popularity 18,871 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
Secunia analysis Available in Customer Area
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft Excel 2003
Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003
Microsoft Office XP

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-1756 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-3029 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-3030 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Excel, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An unspecified calculation error when handling version-related information can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Excel file.

2) An error in the validation of the number of active worksheets can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Excel file.

3) An error when validating the beginning of file attributes associated with workspace information can be exploited via a specially crafted Excel file.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: Additional unspecified security issues discovered internally by Microsoft have also been reported.


Solution
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Changelog
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Original Advisory
MS07-036 (KB936542):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-036.mspx

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