CVE-2008-0113 (GCVE-0-2008-0113)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-03-11 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:32
VLAI
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel document with malformed cell comments that trigger memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Cell Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://secunia.com/advisories/29321 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489415/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0848… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019578 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2008-03-11 00:00
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