CVE-2008-4266
First published: Wed Dec 10 2008(Updated: )
Array index vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel spreadsheet with a NAME record that contains an invalid index value, which triggers stack corruption, aka "Excel Global Array Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Credit: secure@microsoft.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter | ||
| Microsoft Office | =2008 | |
| Microsoft Office | =2004 | |
| Microsoft Excel Viewer | =2003 | |
| Microsoft Excel | =2000-sp3 | |
| Microsoft Excel Viewer | =2003-sp3 | |
| Microsoft Excel | =2002-sp3 | |
| Microsoft Excel | =2003-sp3 |
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Reference Links
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-36/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499055/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021368
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3386
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-074
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5808
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/last-modified-date
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- collector/nvd-historical
- agent/weakness
- agent/author
- agent/severity
- agent/references
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/microsoft
- canonical/microsoft excel
- version/microsoft excel/2000-sp3
- version/microsoft excel/2002-sp3
- version/microsoft excel/2003-sp3
- canonical/microsoft excel viewer
- version/microsoft excel viewer/2003
- version/microsoft excel viewer/2003-sp3
- canonical/microsoft office
- version/microsoft office/2004
- version/microsoft office/2008
- canonical/microsoft open xml file format converter