Vulnerability in Microsoft Office
CVE-2009-0561
Integer overflow in Excel in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Excel in 2007 Microsoft Office System SP1 and SP2; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; Microsoft Office Excel Viewer; Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2; and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a Shared String Table (SST) record with a numeric field that specifies an invalid number of unique strings, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Record Integer Overflow Vulnerability."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.369 (98.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.369 · newest: 0.369 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008, xp
- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack For Word Excel Ppt 2007
- Microsoft Office Excel — versions 2000, 2003, 2007
- Microsoft Office Excel Viewer — versions 2003
- Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server — versions 2007
- Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1540 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-12/ (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504190/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php (third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5925 (signature, vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-021 (vendor-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-160A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- osvdb.org/54957 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/35245 (vdb-entry)