CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4266
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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."
Affected configurations
• microsoft excel 2000
• microsoft excel 2002
• microsoft excel 2003
• microsoft excel viewer 2003
• microsoft office 2004
• microsoft office 2008
• microsoft open xml file format converter
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-36/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499055/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021368 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3386 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-074 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5808 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-36/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499055/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021368 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3386 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-074 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5808 oval.cisecurity.org