A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Excel, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a memory corruption error when processing a malformed ".xls" document, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by convincing a user to open a specially crafted Excel file [...]
Affected Products
Microsoft Excel 2003
Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003
Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Excel v. X for Mac
ChangeLog
2006-06-16 : Initial release
2006-06-19 : Updated Affected Products and References
2006-07-11 : Updated Solution (MS06-037)
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