gsd-2008-4264
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:23
Details
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel spreadsheet that contains a malformed formula, which triggers "pointer corruption" during the loading of formulas from this spreadsheet, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."
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Aliases
CVE-2008-4264


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      "lastModifiedDate": "2018-10-12T21:48Z",
      "publishedDate": "2008-12-10T14:00Z"
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