National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1990

Overview

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP2; Excel in Office 2007 SP2; Excel Viewer SP2; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; and Excel Services on Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 do not properly validate the sign of an unspecified array index, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Out of Bounds Array Indexing 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: TA11-256A

Name: TA11-256A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS11-072

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS11-072

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11982

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11982

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11982

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11982