Description
Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP2; Excel in Office 2007 SP2; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Excel Viewer SP2; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2 do not properly parse records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Heap Corruption Vulnerability."
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ms
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-072
US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12836
Scores
EPSS
0.1861
EPSS Percentile
96.9%
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (8)
microsoft/excel
2003 sp3
microsoft/excel
2007 sp2
microsoft/excel_viewer
microsoft/office
2004
microsoft/office
2007 sp2
microsoft/office
2008
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack
2007 sp2
microsoft/open_xml_file_format_converter
Published
Sep 15, 2011
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026