Microsoft Office Excel: Formula Record Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Users of Microsoft Office Excel please be advised of a Formula Record Buffer Overflow vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com

CVE-2010-3231: Microsoft Office Excel Formula Record Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

. AFFECTED PRODUCTS --------------------------- Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 Open XML File Format Converter for Mac

. DESCRIPTION --------------------- VUPEN Vulnerability Research Team discovered a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow error when parsing Formula records in an Excel file, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Excel document. Read more at www.criticalwatch.com

 

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