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Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA37299
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Release Date: 2009-11-10
Last Update: 2009-11-11
Popularity: 1,056 views

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

Software:Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft Excel 2003
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 XP
Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter for Mac
Binary Analysis: BA828 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA885 :: Available for 2 Credits

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 error in the parsing of certain records in pivot cache streams can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Excel file.

2) An unspecified error in the processing of certain record objects can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Excel file.

3) An error in the parsing of Shared Feature Header records can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Excel file.

4) An unspecified error in the processing of Binary File Format (BIFF) records can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted Excel file.

5) An unspecified error in the handling of formulas embedded inside a cell can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Excel file.

6) An unspecified error when loading Excel formulas can be exploited to corrupt a pointer when a specially crafted Excel file is being opened.

7) An unspecified error when loading Excel records can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Excel file.

8) An unspecified error when processing Excel record objects can be exploited via a specially crafted Excel file.

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code.

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