A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Office Excel, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error when handling header information, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Excel file [...]
Affected Products
Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003
Microsoft Office Excel 2002
Microsoft Office Excel 2000
Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac
Credits
Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-01-16 : Initial release
2008-03-11 : Updated Solution
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