Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Microsoft Excel, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system.
The first flaw is due to memory corruption errors when processing a malformed "SELECTION" record, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by convincing a user to open a specially crafted Excel file [...]
Affected Products
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office v. X for Mac
Microsoft Excel 2003
Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003
Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Excel v. X for Mac
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Posidron, NSFocus Security Team, Arnaud Dovi, iDEFENSE, Sowhat, Xin Ouyang, Shaun Colley, and Costin Ionescu.
ChangeLog
2006-07-11 : Initial release
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