CVE-2009-0100

Microsoft Office Excel - Remote Code Execution via Malformed Spreadsheet Object

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP1; Excel in Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Microsoft Office Excel Viewer and Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 do not properly parse the Excel spreadsheet file format, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet that contains a malformed object with "an offset and a two-byte value" that trigger a memory calculation error, aka "Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.html
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1023
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502696/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6043
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/53665
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022039

Scores

EPSS 0.2904
EPSS Percentile 98.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (9)
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007
microsoft/office_excel 2000 sp3
microsoft/office_excel 2002 sp3
microsoft/office_excel 2003 sp3
microsoft/office_excel 2007 sp1
microsoft/office_excel_viewer
microsoft/office_excel_viewer 2003 sp3
Published Apr 15, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026