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CVE-2011-0979

N/A
Published: February 10, 2011 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:28 PM UTC
5 products affected across 1 vendorOfficeExcelOffice Compatibility Pack

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 27%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (10)

x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Source: [email protected]
http://osvdb.org/70904
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/39122
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/43231
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html
VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20

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