Microsoft Excel 2000/2002/2003 code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Microsoft Excel 2000/2002/2003. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to code injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2008-0116. There is no available exploit. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Excel 2000/2002/2003 (Spreadsheet Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, Compatibility Pack, and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed tags in rich text, aka "Excel Rich Text Validation Vulnerability."

The bug was discovered 03/11/2008. The weakness was presented 03/11/2008 by Cody Pierce with TippingPoint (Website). The advisory is shared at us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-0116 since 01/07/2008. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 50056 (MS08-014 / MS08-016: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (949029 / 949030) (Mac OS X)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110074 (Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS08-014)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. 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 6000.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (40877), Tenable (50056), SecurityFocus (BID 28168†), OSVDB (42730†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1019586†). See VDB-3552, VDB-34122, VDB-41455 and VDB-41454 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 50056
Nessus Name: MS08-014 / MS08-016: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (949029 / 949030) (Mac OS X)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Cody Pierce
Organization: TippingPoint
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-0116 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-0116
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-41453

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X-Force: 40877
SecurityFocus: 28168 - Microsoft Excel Rich Text Value Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
OSVDB: 42730 - CVE-2008-0116 - MS08-014 - Microsoft - Excel - Code Execution Issue
SecurityTracker: 1019586
Vulnerability Center: 17847 - [MS08-014] Microsoft Excel Rich Text Validation Vulnerability Allows Remote Arbitrary Code Execution, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-0846

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Created: 03/16/2015 13:43
Updated: 08/07/2019 07:02
Changes: 03/16/2015 13:43 (79), 08/07/2019 07:02 (5)
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