CVE-2011-1988
Description
Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP2; Excel in Office 2007 SP2; 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 do not properly parse records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Heap 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 | 2003 | |
| microsoft | excel | 2007 | |
| microsoft | excel_viewer | | |
| microsoft | office | 2004 | |
| microsoft | office | 2007 | |
| microsoft | office | 2008 | |
| microsoft | office_compatibility_pack | 2007 | |
| microsoft | open_xml_file_format_converter | | |
References
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-072
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12836
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-072
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12836
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.