CVE-2011-0979

CVSS V2 High 9.3 CVSS V3 None
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."
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2011-0979
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2011-02-10T19:00:01
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-10-12T21:59:58
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:-:-:x64:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2010:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:-:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2011:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:*:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 9.3
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 10
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft
http://secunia.com/advisories/43231 Vendor Advisory
http://osvdb.org/70904
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/39122 Vendor Advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html US Government Resource
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12595
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-021
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0979
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0979
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:24:29 Added to TrackCVE