Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2012-0143
Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3 and Office 2008 for Mac do not properly handle memory during the opening of files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Memory Corruption Using Various Modified Bytes Vulnerability."
EPSS: 0.224 (97.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2003
- Microsoft Office — versions 2008
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)