[PCWorks] Microsoft Office Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities

  • From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:54:26 -0600

TITLE:
Microsoft Office Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities

Highly critical
Impact:  System access
Where:  From remote

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38805/

DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Office
Excel, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

1) An error in the parsing of records can be exploited to corrupt
memory via a specially crafted file.

2) An error in the parsing of sheet object types can be exploited to
corrupt memory via a specially crafted file.

3) An error in the parsing of MDXTUPLE records can be exploited to
cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file.

4) An error in the parsing of MDXSET records can be exploited to
cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file.

5) An error in the parsing of FNGROUPNAME records may result in the
use of uninitialised memory via a specially crafted file.

6) An error in the parsing of XLSX files and may allow code execution
via a specially crafted file.

7) An error in the parsing of DbOrParamQry records can be exploited
to corrupt memory via a specially crafted file.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of
arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E0136F62-60CE-4EBD-8660-BE81EBA29AE8

Microsoft Office Excel 2003 SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7E42793E-747B-48DA-968A-1EC29EA37151

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=03429F8A-8AAB-4A59-97E4-7CE047F100A5

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=03429F8A-8AAB-4A59-97E4-7CE047F100A5

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae5936f8-fe3f-4d23-a37c-d80f228e475e

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0ed1569-ab2f-407c-b728-4eddc463c385

Open XML File Format Converter for Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4c5487d5-c912-4087-8c83-769e3fb78ea9

Microsoft Office Excel Viewer SP1/SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=010D0A4D-02A4-4142-963B-A38CD06CC897

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
2007 File Formats SP1/SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=314F076E-8F9D-46C2-B666-86599A02BF15

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 (32-bit editions):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=94DDF6EF-3392-4D77-A02B-3BC0470721CD

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 (32-bit editions):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=94DDF6EF-3392-4D77-A02B-3BC0470721CD

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 (64-bit editions):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06F6BFFB-3FAD-4FB5-878B-39550812E9B5

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 (64-bit editions):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06F6BFFB-3FAD-4FB5-878B-39550812E9B5

NOTE: Some links may not currently work as this advisory was rushed
since information about the upcoming Microsoft security bulletins was
purposefully leaked by a third party.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS10-017 (KB980150, KB978471, KB978474, KB978382, KB980837, KB980839,
KB980840, KB978383, KB978380, KB979439):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-017.mspx

NOTE: The link may not currently work as this advisory was rushed
since information about the upcoming Microsoft security bulletins was
purposefully leaked by a third party.


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