Buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2011-1274
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Excel Viewer SP2; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2 do not properly validate record information during parsing of Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Out of Bounds Array Access Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.133 (96.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2002, 2003, 2007
- Microsoft Excel_viewer
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008
- Microsoft Office_compatibility_pack — versions 2007
- Microsoft Open_xml_file_format_converter
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)