CVE-2007-1239

Microsoft Excel 2003 - Denial of Service via Corrupted XLS or XML File Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Excel 2003 does not properly parse .XLS files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file with a (1) corrupted XML format or a (2) corrupted XLS format, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461373/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22717

Scores

EPSS 0.1161
EPSS Percentile 95.6%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
microsoft/excel 2003 (3 CPE variants)
Published Mar 03, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026