CVE-2011-0979

Microsoft Excel 2002-2010, Office 2004-2011 for Mac, Open XML Converter - RCE via Malformed Office Art Record

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/39122
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/43231
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12595
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/70904
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940

Scores

EPSS 0.2652
EPSS Percentile 97.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (11)
microsoft/excel
microsoft/excel 2002 sp3
microsoft/excel 2003 sp3
microsoft/excel 2007 sp2
microsoft/excel 2010
microsoft/excel_viewer
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/office 2011
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack 2007 sp2
... and 1 more
Published Feb 10, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026