PT-2007-2660 · Microsoft · Office Excel

Published 2007-03-03 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-1239

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Excel version 2003

Description The issue is related to the improper parsing of .XLS files, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This can be achieved through a file with either a corrupted XML format or a corrupted XLS format, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

Recommendations For Microsoft Excel version 2003, consider avoiding the use of corrupted .XLS files until a fix is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the opening of potentially malicious .XLS files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-1239

Affected Products

Office Excel

References · 5

• 🔥 http://securityvulns.com/news/Microsoft/Excel/XML/DoS.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1239 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/461373/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/22717 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1239 · Note