CVE-2009-0100

Critical

Description

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP1; Excel in Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Microsoft Office Excel Viewer and Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 do not properly parse the Excel spreadsheet file format, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet that contains a malformed object with "an offset and a two-byte value" that trigger a memory calculation error, aka "Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMicrosoft Office
PublishedApr 15, 2009
First seenApr 15, 2009

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
microsoft office2004, 2008—
microsoft office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007No range specified—
microsoft office_excel2000, 2002, 2003, 2007—
microsoft office_excel_viewerNo range specified, 2003—

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CVE-2009-0100 · Microsoft Office · Dark Radar