bugtraq - Secunia Research: Microsoft Excel Lotus 1-2-3 File Parsing Vulnerability

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Message-Id: <201010121937.o9CJbjFm002168@CA-IX-1.intnet>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:37:45 +0200
From: Secunia Research <remove-vuln@...unia.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Secunia Research: Microsoft Excel Lotus 1-2-3 File Parsing Vulnerability

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                     Secunia Research 12/10/2010

     - Microsoft Excel Lotus 1-2-3 File Parsing Vulnerability -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10

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1) Affected Software 

* Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3
* Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity 

Rating: Moderately critical
Impact: System compromise
Where:  Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software 

"Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful tool you can use to create and
format spreadsheets, and analyze and share information to make more 
informed decisions.".

Product Link:
http://office.microsoft.com/excel

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, 
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's 
system.

The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error in the parsing of
certain records in Lotus 1-2-3 workbooks. This can be exploited to 
cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a Lotus 1-2-3 file containing 
a specially crafted, overly long record.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution 

Apply patches provided by MS10-080.

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6) Time Table 

09/04/2010 - Vendor notified.
09/04/2010 - Vendor response.
25/05/2010 - Vendor provides status update.
30/09/2010 - Vendor provides status update.
12/10/2010 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits 

Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned 
CVE-2010-3233 for the vulnerability.

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9) About Secunia

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10) Verification 

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-55/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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