CVE-2011-0979 (GCVE-0-2011-0979)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-02-10 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:14
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."
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