Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2011-0979 First vendor Publication 2011-02-10
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

Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0979

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12595
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12595
Title: Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability
Description: Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2011-0979
 Version: 9
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows 7
 Product(s): Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft Excel 2003
Microsoft Excel 2010
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Application 1
Application 3
Application 1
Application 1

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2011-11-05 MS11-021 Microsoft Office 2007 Excel .xlb Buffer Overflow
2011-11-02 Microsoft Excel 2007 SP2 Buffer Overwrite Exploit
2011-04-29 Microsoft Office Excel Axis Properties Record Parsing Buffer Overflow PoC

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-03-06 Name : Microsoft SMB Transaction Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
File : nvt/secpod_ms11-020_remote.nasl
2011-04-13 Name : Microsoft Office Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (2489279)
File : nvt/secpod_ms11-021.nasl
2011-02-23 Name : Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Invalid Object Type Remote Code Execution Vulnera...
File : nvt/gb_ms_office_excel_art_object_code_exec_vuln.nasl
2011-02-23 Name : Microsoft Office Excel Axis and Art Object Parsing Remote Code Execution Vuln...
File : nvt/gb_ms_office_excel_mult_code_exec_vuln.nasl
2011-02-23 Name : Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 OfficeArt Atom Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
File : nvt/gb_ms_power_point_code_exec_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
71763 Microsoft Office Excel File Handling Linked List Corruption Remote Code Execu...

Multiple Microsoft products contain a flaw related to improper error handling in office art object records. The issue is triggered when the program receives a window message and navigates to a linked list which accesses a malformed object. This may allow a context-dependent attacker to execute arbitrary code.
70904 Microsoft Office Excel OfficeArt Container Parsing Memory Corruption

A memory corruption flaw exists in Microsoft Office Excel. The program fails to properly handle errors during Office Art record parsing, resulting in memory corruption. With a specially crafted Excel document, a context-dependent attacker can execute arbitrary code.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel url unicode overflow attempt
RuleID : 7002 - Revision : 20 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2015-01-31 Microsoft Office Excel malformed Label record exploit attempt
RuleID : 32940 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2015-01-06 Microsoft Office Excel DV record buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 32625 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-07-03 Microsoft Office Excel rtToolbarDef record integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 31127 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-07-03 Microsoft Office Excel rtToolbarDef record integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 31126 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-07-03 Microsoft Office Excel rtToolbarDef record integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 31125 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel rtToolbarDef record integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 28550 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel rtToolbarDef record integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 28549 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel RealTimeData record memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 28546 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel RealTimeData record memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 28545 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel RealTimeData record memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 28544 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel Workspace file FontCount record memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 28103 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel IPMT record buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 25296 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel IPMT record buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 25295 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel IPMT record buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 25294 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel IPMT record buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 25293 - Revision : 6 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel catLabel pointer manipulation attempt
RuleID : 24130 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel catLabel pointer manipulation attempt
RuleID : 24129 - Revision : 6 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel rtToolbarDef record integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 20534 - Revision : 12 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel DV record buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 18676 - Revision : 11 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel OBJ record invalid cmo.ot exploit attempt
RuleID : 18641 - Revision : 7 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel malformed SupBook record attempt
RuleID : 18640 - Revision : 8 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel CatSerRange record exploit attempt
RuleID : 18639 - Revision : 12 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel Workspace file FontCount record memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 18634 - Revision : 15 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel RealTimeData record memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 18633 - Revision : 14 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel malformed Label record exploit attempt
RuleID : 18632 - Revision : 19 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel rtToolbarDef record integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 18631 - Revision : 11 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel rtToolbarDef record integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 18630 - Revision : 11 - Type : FILE-OFFICE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2011-04-13 Name : An application installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_ms_office_apr2011.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-13 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Microsoft Excel.
File : smb_nt_ms11-021.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html
MISC http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/
MS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11...
OSVDB http://osvdb.org/70904
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/39122
http://secunia.com/advisories/43231
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940

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