cve-2008-4265
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-10 13:33
Modified
2024-08-07 10:08
Severity ?
Summary
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel spreadsheet that contains a malformed object, which triggers memory corruption during the loading of records from this spreadsheet, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."
Impacted products
n/an/a
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