National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0263

Overview

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 SP1 and SP2; Office 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Excel Viewer SP1 and SP2; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2; and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and SP2 do not validate ZIP headers during decompression of Open XML (.XLSX) documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document that triggers access to uninitialized memory locations, aka "Microsoft Office Excel XLSX File Parsing Code Execution 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: TA10-068A

Name: TA10-068A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-068A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS10-017

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-017.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-025/

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-025/

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1023698

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023698

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20100309 ZDI-10-025: Microsoft Office Excel XLSX File Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/509979/100/0/threaded

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8407

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8407

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8407

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8407