CVE-2011-0979
Description
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2011 | |
| microsoft | office_compatibility_pack | 2007 | |
| microsoft | open_xml_file_format_converter | | |
References
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft
- http://osvdb.org/70904
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39122
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43231
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-021
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12595
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft
- http://osvdb.org/70904
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39122
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43231
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-021
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12595
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.