CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-0979

9.3 HIGH Published 2011-02-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-02-10
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-20

Description

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."

Affected configurations

• microsoft excel • microsoft excel 2002 • microsoft excel 2003 • microsoft excel 2007 • microsoft excel 2010 • microsoft excel viewer • microsoft office 2004 • microsoft office 2008 • microsoft office 2011 • microsoft office compatibility pack 2007 • microsoft open xml file format converter

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References