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Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA35364
Release Date: 2009-06-09
Last Update: 2009-06-12
Popularity: 8,809 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

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 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter for Mac

Binary Analysis: BA635 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA691 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA751 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA781 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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

1) An array-indexing error when processing certain records can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Excel file.

2) An error when parsing certain records may result in a corrupted pointer being used when opening a specially crafted Excel
file.

3) An error when parsing certain records may result in a corrupted object being used when opening a specially crafted Excel file.

4) An error when parsing certain records can be exploited to corrupt memory when opening a specially crafted Excel file.

5) A boundary error when parsing certain records can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when opening a specially crafted Excel file.

6) An error when parsing Qsir BIFF records (0x806) may result in a corrupted pointer being used when opening a specially crafted Excel file.

7) An integer overflow error when processing the number of strings in a file can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted Excel file.

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

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