PT-2008-5546 · Microsoft · Office Excel

Published 2008-12-10 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2008-4265

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 Microsoft Office Excel (affected versions not specified)

Description: A remote code execution issue exists due to memory corruption when loading Excel records. This could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file that includes a malformed object. An attacker who successfully exploits this issue could take complete control of an affected system, then install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

Recommendations: For Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue. For other affected versions of Microsoft Office Excel, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4265

Affected Products

Office Excel

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4265 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4265 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-074 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5614 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021368 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html · Note
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=763 · Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/MS08-074 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3386 · Note