Microsoft Excel conditional formatting vulnerability
Added: 03/14/2008CVE: CVE-2008-0117
BID: 28170
OSVDB: 42731
Background
Microsoft Excel, part of the Microsoft Office product suite, is a spreadsheet application for Windows and Macintosh platforms.Problem
A vulnerability in Microsoft Excel allows command execution when a user opens a file containing specially crafted conditional formatting values.Resolution
See Microsoft Security Bulletin 08-014 for update information.References
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-014.mspxLimitations
Exploit works on Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and requires a user to open a specially crafted file in Microsoft Excel.Platforms
Windows 2000Windows XP
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