Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 22:09:17 CST in Security
by Raven
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA28506
VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/28506/
CRITICAL: Extremely critical
IMPACT: System access
SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Excel 2003: http://secunia.com/product/4970/
Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003: http://secunia.com/product/7700/
Microsoft Excel 2002: http://secunia.com/product/4043/
Microsoft Excel 2000: http://secunia.com/product/3054/
Microsoft Office 2000: http://secunia.com/product/24/
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition: http://secunia.com/product/2276/
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition: http://secunia.com/product/2277/
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition: http://secunia.com/product/2275/
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition: http://secunia.com/product/2278/
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac: http://secunia.com/product/8713/
DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Excel, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the handling of Excel files and can be exploited via a specially crafted Excel file with malformed header information. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code but requires that the user is tricked into opening a malicious Excel file. NOTE: According to Microsoft, this is currently being actively exploited.
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