National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0104
Original release date:04/13/2011
Last revised:01/15/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted HLink record in an Excel file, aka "Excel Buffer Overwrite Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA11-102A
Name: TA11-102A
External Source: MS
Name: MS11-021
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0940
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1025337
External Source: BID
Name: 47245
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2011/cpai-31-Mard.html
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39122
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11767
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 71761
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11767
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5