cve-2012-5672
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-10-25 10:00
Modified
2024-09-16 21:56
Severity ?
Summary
Microsoft Excel Viewer (aka Xlview.exe) and Excel in Microsoft Office 2007 (aka Office 12) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read access violation and application crash) via a crafted spreadsheet file, as demonstrated by a .xls file with battery voltage data.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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