Microsoft Excel 2000/2002/2003 NAME Index resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Microsoft Excel 2000/2002/2003. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component NAME Index Handler. Such manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2008-4264. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Excel 2000/2002/2003 (Spreadsheet Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component NAME Index Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel spreadsheet that contains a malformed formula, which triggers "pointer corruption" during the loading of formulas from this spreadsheet, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."

The bug was discovered 12/09/2008. The weakness was published 12/09/2008 by Dyon Balding with Secunia Research as MS08-074 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is available at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-4264 since 09/25/2008. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $100k and more. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 900061 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110090 (Microsoft Excel Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS08-074)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch MS08-074 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 6598.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (46862), Tenable (900061), SecurityFocus (BID 32621†), OSVDB (50557†) and Secunia (SA31593†). Similar entries are available at VDB-3891 and VDB-3892. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 900061
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OpenVAS ID: 900061
OpenVAS Name: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (959070)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: MS08-074
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS08-074
Researcher: Dyon Balding
Organization: Secunia Research
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-4264 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-4264
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-3890

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X-Force: 46862
SecurityFocus: 32621 - Microsoft Excel Formula Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 31593 - Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 50557 - Microsoft Excel NAME Record Global Array Parsing Memory Corruption
SecurityTracker: 1021368
Vulnerability Center: 20199 - [MS08-074] Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet File Format Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-3386

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Entryinfo

Created: 12/19/2008 11:43
Updated: 08/21/2019 18:02
Changes: 12/19/2008 11:43 (99), 08/21/2019 18:02 (1)
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Cache ID: 216:CC3:103

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