National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0979

Overview

Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List 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: TA11-102A

Name: TA11-102A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS11-021

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-021.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/

Hyperlink:http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0940

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025337

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43231

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43231

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 39122

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/39122

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12595

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12595

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 70904

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/70904

External Source: MISC

Name: http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft

Hyperlink:http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12595

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12595