Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2008-4266
Array index vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel spreadsheet with a NAME record that contains an invalid index value, which triggers stack corruption, aka "Excel Global Array Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
EPSS: 0.276 (97.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2000, 2002, 2003
- Microsoft Excel_viewer — versions 2003
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008
- Microsoft Open_xml_file_format_converter
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)