National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0558

Overview

Array index error in Excel in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file with a malformed record object, aka "Array Indexing 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: TA09-160A

Name: TA09-160A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-160A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS09-021

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-021.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1540

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1540

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022351

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022351

External Source: BID

Name: 35242

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35242

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090609 Secunia Research: Microsoft Excel Record Parsing Array Indexing Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/504188/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-1/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-1/

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11525

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11525

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 54954

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/54954

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11525

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11525