Buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2011-1279
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac do not properly validate record information during parsing of Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbi…
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.435 (97.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2002, 2003
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008
- Microsoft Open_xml_file_format_converter
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- ms-excel-writeav-ce(67717) (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12373 (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- 48164 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- MS11-045 (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)