CVE-2009-3134

Microsoft Office Excel and Compatibility Pack - Remote Code Execution via Malformed Record Object

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP1 and SP2; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; Office Excel Viewer SP1 and SP2; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2 do not properly parse the Excel file format, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a spreadsheet with a malformed record object, aka "Excel Field Sanitization Vulnerability."

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023157
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-314A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5878

Scores

EPSS 0.2578
EPSS Percentile 97.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (9)
microsoft/compatibility_pack_word_excel_powerpoint 2007 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/excel 2002 sp3
microsoft/excel 2003 sp3
microsoft/excel 2007 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/excel_viewer (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/excel_viewer 2003 sp3
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/open_xml_file_format_converter
Published Nov 11, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026