CVE-2011-1990 (GCVE-0-2011-1990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-09-15 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:46
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Excel 2007 SP2; Excel in Office 2007 SP2; Excel Viewer SP2; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; and Excel Services on Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 do not properly validate the sign of an unspecified array index, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Out of Bounds Array Indexing Vulnerability."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
Date Public
2011-09-13 00:00
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