59860 : Microsoft Office Excel BIFF File FEATHEADER cbHdrData Size Element Handling Memory Corruption
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
17	2641	over 2 years ago	about 1 year ago	35 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2009-04-30	2009-04-30	2009-11-10	2009-11-10

Time to Patch
194 days

Keywords

TippingPoint IPS Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 9231

Description

Excel contains a flaw that may allow a context-dependent attacker to execute arbitrary code. The issue is triggered by a specially crafted Excel document that contains a malformed FEATHEADER object.

Classification

Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Patch / RCS
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Microsoft has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	Excel	2007 SP1
		2002 SP3
		2003 SP3
		2007 SP2

References

Security Tracker: 1023157
Exploit Database: 14706
CVE ID: 2009-3129 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 36945
Secunia Advisory ID: 37299
SCIP VulDB ID: 4057
Related OSVDB ID: 59858 59859 59861 59862 59863 59864 59866
Metasploit ID: 59860
OVAL ID: 6521
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 972652 973471 973475 973484 973593 973704 973707 976828 976830 976831
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-11/0080.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-11/0082.html
Other Advisory URL: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=832
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=68809148ea164e7e9c605e51740e229160540c301c1148d5a9732cd62a43022c-1282651545
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-083
News Article: http://www.scmagazineus.com/Microsoft-fixes-15-flaws-with-six-patches/article/157541/
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS09-067
CERT: TA09-314A

Tools & Filters

	42441

Credit

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-11-12 | Disagree?

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