National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3030
Original release date:07/10/2007
Last revised:10/31/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, and 2003 Viewer allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed Excel file involving the "denoting [of] the start of a Workspace designation", which results in memory corruption, aka the "Workbook Memory Corruption Vulnerability".
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-191A
Name: TA07-191A
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-2478
External Source: MS
Name: MS07-036
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 35959
External Source: XF
Name: excel-workspace-designation-code-execution(35217)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018352
External Source: BID
Name: 24803
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25995
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT071446
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1709
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1709
Type: Tool Signature
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1709
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5