Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel document with malformed cell comments that trigger memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Cell Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Office XP SP3 - '.PPT' File Buffer Overflow (MS08-016) EDB-5320 · local · Mar 30, 2008 · verified
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References
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-008
- TA08-071A third-party-advisory
- 29321 third-party-advisory
- MS08-016 vendor-advisory
- SSRT080028 vendor-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5421 vdb-entry signature
- 20080311 ZDI-08-008: Microsoft Excel BIFF File Format Cell Record Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability mailing-list
- ADV-2008-0848 vdb-entry
- 1019578 vdb-entry