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 [...]
Solution
Apply patches :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS06-037.mspx
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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