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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3006
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-3006

Description:
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Office Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack 2007 Gold and SP1; Office SharePoint Server 2007 Gold and SP1; and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac do not properly parse Country record values when loading Excel files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file, aka the "Excel Record Parsing Vulnerability."

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

ST
  1020672

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA31454
  Secunia Advisory: SA31455

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5561

MS
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-043.mspx

MISC
  http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-048/

HP
  http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2

CERT
  http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495428/100/0/threaded

BID
  30640


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