CVE-2011-0979

Published Feb 10, 2011

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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."
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 9.3
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-20

Configurations

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          },
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            "vulnerable": true,
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          },
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          },
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            "vulnerable": true,
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          },
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          },
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          },
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          },
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          },
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          },
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          }
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    ]
  }
]

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

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