CVE-2015-2523
Description
Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, Excel 2013 SP1, Excel 2013 RT SP1, Excel for Mac 2011 and 2016, Office Compatibility Pack SP3, and Excel Viewer allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Microsoft Excel 2007/2010/2013 - BIFFRecord Use-After-Free
Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=462
The following crash was observed in Microsoft Excel 2007 running on Windows 2003 R2. This crash was also reproduced in Microsoft Excel 2010 on Windows 7 x86 and Microsoft Excel 2013 on Windows 8.1 x86. The test environment was Excel 2007 on Windows 2003 R2 with application verifier basic checks enabled.
Attached files:
Original File: 683709058_orig.xls
Crashing File: 683709058_crash.xls
Minimized Crashing File: 683709058_min.xls
The minimized crashing file shows two deltas from the original. The first at offset 0x237 is in the data of the 4th BIFFRecord and the second delta at offset 0x34a5 is in the type field of a BIFFRecord.
File versions:
Excel.exe: 12.0.6718.5000
MSO.dll: 12.0.6721.5000
Observed Crash:
eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=0ce119f8 edx=00003fff esi=0e98de10 edi=0013c82c
eip=30037cc5 esp=00137180 ebp=00137188 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na po nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010202
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for Excel.exe -
Excel!Ordinal40+0x37cc5:
30037cc5 0fb64604 movzx eax,byte ptr [esi+4] ds:0023:0e98de14=??
0:000> kb L8
ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
00137188 303df098 0e98de10 00000000 00000102 Excel!Ordinal40+0x37cc5
0013d068 30528190 0013d0a8 00000102 00000000 Excel!Ordinal40+0x3df098
0013d2bc 305280b1 00000000 00000001 00000008 Excel!Ordinal40+0x528190
0013d330 3038d46d 0013ddf2 00000000 00000001 Excel!Ordinal40+0x5280b1
0013e000 300084a4 0013e104 00000001 0013f568 Excel!Ordinal40+0x38d46d
0013fbb0 30005e9a 02270fd7 00000003 30f61708 Excel!Ordinal40+0x84a4
0013feb8 30003b3a 00000000 02270fd7 00000003 Excel!Ordinal40+0x5e9a
0013ff30 30003884 30000000 00000000 02270fd7 Excel!Ordinal40+0x3b3a
In this crash esi is a heap address. We can see that this is a free chunk:
0:000> !heap -p -a 0xe98de10
address 0e98de10 found in
_DPH_HEAP_ROOT @ 1161000
in free-ed allocation ( DPH_HEAP_BLOCK: VirtAddr VirtSize)
e7f0fc0: e98d000 2000
7c83e330 ntdll!RtlFreeHeap+0x0000011a
018b1611 vfbasics!AVrfpRtlFreeHeap+0x000000a8
331039d5 mso!Ordinal1743+0x00002d4d
329c91d1 mso!MsoFreePv+0x0000003f
30298310 Excel!Ordinal40+0x00298310
30300ac3 Excel!Ordinal40+0x00300ac3
305f1899 Excel!Ordinal40+0x005f1899
This is a use after free vulnerability affecting all currently supported versions of Microsoft Excel.
Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/38214.zipApplication impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | excel | 2007 | |
| microsoft | excel | 2010 | |
| microsoft | excel | 2011 | |
| microsoft | excel | 2013 | |
| microsoft | excel | 2016 | |
| microsoft | excel_viewer | | |
| microsoft | office_compatibility_pack | | |
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033488
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-099
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38214/
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033488
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-099
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38214/
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.