Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Informations
Name KB921365 First vendor Publication 2006-06-19
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2006-07-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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 has completed the investigation into a public report of a vulnerability. We have issued MS06-037 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS06-037. The vulnerability addressed is the Microsoft Excel Malformed file Vulnerability - CVE-2006-3059.


Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/921365.mspx

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:537
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:537
Title: Microsoft Excel Malformed File Vulnerability
Description: Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2004 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3086.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-3059
Version: 3
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): Microsoft Excel
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 11
Application 1

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2006-07-06 Microsoft Excel 2000/2003 Hlink Local Buffer Overflow Exploit (french)
2006-06-22 Microsoft Excel Unspecified Remote Code Execution Exploit

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
26527 Microsoft Excel Malformed URL String Handling Overflow

Microsoft Excel contains a flaw related to a memory corruption error in the 'repair mode' functionality that may allow an attacker to execute remote arbitrary code. No further details have been provided.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel url unicode overflow attempt
RuleID : 7002 - Revision : 20 - Type : FILE-OFFICE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-07-11 Name : An application installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_ms_06-037.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-07-11 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Microsoft Excel.
File : smb_nt_ms06-037.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO