42724 : Microsoft Excel Style Record Handling Memory Corruption
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Mar 11, 2008

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(Description Provided by CVE) : Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, and Office for Mac 2004 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted Style records that trigger memory corruption.

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2008/03/21 05:00:30 | MS08-014 for Microsoft Excel 2003 Re-released

from: D' Technology Weblog: Technology, Blogging, Tips, Tricks, Computer, Hardware, Software, Tutorials, Internet, Web, Gadgets, Fashion, LifeStyle, Entertainment, News and more by Deepak Gupta.

MS08-014 for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2 and Service Pack 3 has been re-released ... as the original MS08-014 security update. It is also supported by the same detection and deployment tools as the original update. This post is from Deepak Gupta's - D' Technology Weblog MS08-014

2008/03/14 18:42:13 | Just-patched Excel makes calculation mistakes

from: Technomania

Microsoft told Excel users Thursday that one of the 12 patches issued Tuesday causes the spreadsheet to make mistakes in some calculations ... that the fixes outlined in the MS08-014 bulletin “causes Microsoft Excel 2003 calculations to return an incorrect result when a Real Time Data source is used.”According to a more detailed addition to MS08-014

2008/03/14 18:10:03 | S-227: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel (MS08-014)

from: The UNIX Forums

Remote code vulnerabilities exist in the way Excel: 1) processes data validation records when loading Excel files into memory; 2) handles data when importing files into Excel; 3) Style record data when opening Excel files; 4) handles malformed formulas; 5) handles rich text values when loading application data into memory; 6)

2008/03/14 18:02:10 | Just-patched Excel makes calculation mistakes

from: THE FAME STATION - Fun Unlimited!

Just-patched Excel makes calculation mistakes Microsoft told Excel users Thursday that one of the 12 patches issued Tuesday causes the spreadsheet ... communications manager, said that the fixes outlined in the MS08-014 bulletin "causes Microsoft ... to a more detailed addition to MS08-014, Excel 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Excel 2003 SP3 return

2008/03/13 00:20:19 | Microsoft Delivers Patches For Office 7

from: Volk Defense

[ officepatch2.jpg]First, Sun Microsystems patched their software called Java, and now Microsoft has released patches for Microsoft Excel just yesterday. In the first bulletin (MS08-014), Microsoft stated “several privately reported and publicly reported vulnerabilities

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