National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0100

Overview

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP1; Excel in Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Microsoft Office Excel Viewer and Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 do not properly parse the Excel spreadsheet file format, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet that contains a malformed object with "an offset and a two-byte value" that trigger a memory calculation error, aka "Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-104A

Name: TA09-104A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS09-009

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-009.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1023

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1023

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022039

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022039

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090415 Microsoft Office Excel Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502696/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.fortiguardcenter.com/advisory/FGA-2009-16.html

Hyperlink:http://www.fortiguardcenter.com/advisory/FGA-2009-16.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6043

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6043

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 53665

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/53665

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6043

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6043