PT-2007-2636 · Microsoft · Office Excel+1

Greg Macmanus · Published 2007-05-08 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-1214

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Excel versions 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2003 Viewer, and 2004 for Mac

Description A remote code execution issue exists in the way Excel handles specially crafted filter records in Excel files. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted AutoFilter filter record in an Excel BIFF8 format XLS file, which triggers memory corruption. Such a file might be included in an e-mail attachment or hosted on a malicious Web site, and an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Excel file.

Recommendations For Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, consider applying a patch or update to fix the issue. For Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, consider applying a patch or update to fix the issue. For Microsoft Excel 2003 SP2, consider applying a patch or update to fix the issue. For Microsoft Excel 2003 Viewer, consider applying a patch or update to fix the issue. For Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac, consider applying a patch or update to fix the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of specially crafted filter records in Excel files until a patch is available.

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-1214

Affected Products

Office Excel

Office

References · 17

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1018012 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1214 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-023 · Vendor Advisory
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=527 · Patch
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1708 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25150 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/468871/100/200/threaded · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1214 · Security Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-128A.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/23780 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/253825 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2064 · Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-023 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1214 · Note
• http://frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1708 · Note