Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-4266 First vendor Publication 2008-12-10
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2018-10-12

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Array index vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel spreadsheet with a NAME record that contains an invalid index value, which triggers stack corruption, aka "Excel Global Array Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4266

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5808
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5808
Title: Excel Global Array Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description: Array index vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel spreadsheet with a NAME record that contains an invalid index value, which triggers stack corruption, aka "Excel Global Array Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-4266
 Version: 6
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
 Product(s): Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft Excel 2003
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3
Application 2
Application 2
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-12-10 Name : Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (...
File : nvt/secpod_ms08-074.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50557 Microsoft Excel NAME Record Global Array Parsing Memory Corruption

Excel, Excel Viewer, Office for Mac and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code. The issue is triggered when Excel processes a spreadsheet with a NAME record that contains an invalid index value triggering stack corruption. It is possible that the flaw may allow arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-10-01 Microsoft Office Excel TXO and OBJ records parsing stack memory corruption at...
RuleID : 51364 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2019-10-01 Microsoft Office Excel TXO and OBJ records parsing stack memory corruption at...
RuleID : 51363 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-11-16 Microsoft Office Excel TXO and OBJ records parsing stack memory corruption at...
RuleID : 31592 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-11-16 Microsoft Office Excel TXO and OBJ records parsing stack memory corruption at...
RuleID : 31591 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-02-21 Microsoft Office Excel country record arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 29404 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel TXO and OBJ records parsing stack memory corruption at...
RuleID : 21932 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel TXO and OBJ records parsing stack memory corruption at...
RuleID : 21931 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Excel malformed OBJ record memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 15117 - Revision : 14 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel country record arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 13972 - Revision : 23 - Type : FILE-OFFICE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2010-10-20 Name : An application installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_ms_office_dec2008.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-10 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Microsoft Excel.
File : smb_nt_ms08-074.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499055/100/0/threaded
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
MISC http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-36/
MS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08...
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021368
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3386

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