Buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2011-1990
Microsoft Excel 2007 SP2; Excel in Office 2007 SP2; Excel Viewer SP2; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; and Excel Services on Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 do not properly validate the sign of an unspecified array index, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Out of Bounds Array Indexing Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.205 (97.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2007
- Microsoft Excel_viewer
- Microsoft Office — versions 2007
- Microsoft Office_compatibility_pack — versions 2007
- Microsoft Sharepoint_server — versions 2007
- 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)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)