CVE-2008-3006

Microsoft Office Excel - Remote Code Execution via Crafted Country Record in Excel File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Office Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack 2007 Gold and SP1; Office SharePoint Server 2007 Gold and SP1; and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac do not properly parse Country record values when loading Excel files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file, aka the "Excel Record Parsing Vulnerability."

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30640
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495428/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020672
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31455
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31454
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5561
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2347
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-048/

Scores

EPSS 0.3565
EPSS Percentile 98.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (9)
microsoft/office 2000 sp3
microsoft/office 2003 sp2 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office 2007 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office xp sp3
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack 2007 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office_excel_viewer 2003 (3 CPE variants)
microsoft/sharepoint_server 2007 (2 CPE variants)
Published Aug 12, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026