CVE-2011-0979
highpriority · attend · 46EPSS 0.265 · 98 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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."
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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affected products (12)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- microsoft office compatibility pack= 2007nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- microsoft open xml file format converterall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
also known as (3)
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sources
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references (23)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoftcnnvd
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS11-021Patchcnnvd
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/cnnvd
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoftenisa_euvd
- http://osvdb.org/70904enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39122enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43231enisa_euvd
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337enisa_euvd
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