CVE-2011-0979 Information

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.\

Reference

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft http://osvdb.org/70904 http://secunia.com/advisories/39122 http://secunia.com/advisories/43231 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940 http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-021 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A12595