CVE-2011-0097

critical

Published 2011-04-13 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.3

Description

Integer underflow in Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted 400h substream in an Excel file, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow, aka "Excel Integer Overrun Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
microsoft	excel	`-`
microsoft	excel	`2002`
microsoft	excel	`2003`
microsoft	excel	`2007`
microsoft	excel	`2010`
microsoft	excel_viewer	`-`
microsoft	office	`2004`
microsoft	office	`2008`
microsoft	office_compatibility_pack	`2007`
microsoft	open_xml_file_format_converter

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.