Microsoft Windows Excel EDG Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Date Discovered:
06/08/2010
Severity:
Medium
Operating Systems
Affected:
Microsoft Windows
Application
Affected:
Microsoft Office Excel
2002 SP 3
Microsoft Office Excel 2003 SP 3
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 SP 1
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 SP 2
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Open XML File Format Converter for Mac
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer SP 1
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer SP 2
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
2007 File Formats SP 1
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
2007 File Formats SP 2
Identifiers:
CVE-2010-1250
Synopsis
Microsoft
Excel is vulnerable to memory corruption attack that allows remote
attacker to take control of victim machine.
Microsoft
Excel is a spreadsheet application released by the Microsoft
Corporation. An Excel file contains information about the various
spreadsheets that form an Excel workbook, the data and macros that
populate spreadsheet cells, and so on.
There is a memory corruption vulnerability found it. This issue exists
as application failed to parse the specially crafted XLS file and leads to memory corruption.
Remote attacker to exploit the victim machine installed with vulnerable
version of the application. Attacker can take control of victim machine
on successful attempt.
