Buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2011-1278
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac 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…
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.501 (97.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2002
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12687 (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- excel-writeav-ce(67716) (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- 48163 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- MS11-045 (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)