CVE-2008-0113 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel document with malformed cell comments that trigger memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Cell Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Published: 2008-03-11

Score: 9.3 Critical

EPSS: 66.5% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.66516.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/29321
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489415/100/0/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019578
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0848/references
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-008
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-016
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5421

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Excel Viewer

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2008-03-11T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:32:23.902Z

Reserved: 2008-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0113

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-03-11T23:44:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-0113

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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