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GHSA-6CVP-FP94-MVG9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 02:35 – Updated: 2025-04-11 03:44

Details

Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."

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CVE-2011-0979 (GCVE-0-2011-0979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-02-10 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

10 references

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http://secunia.com/advisories/39122	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/43231	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zd…	x_refsource_MISC
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/	x_refsource_MISC
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
http://osvdb.org/70904	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940	vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Date Public

2011-02-07 00:00

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