Microsoft Office up to Xp code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office up to Xp. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in code injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2009-0549. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office up to Xp (Office Suite Software). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Excel in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 SP3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file with a malformed record object, aka "Record Pointer Corruption Vulnerability."

The bug was discovered 06/09/2009. The weakness was presented 06/09/2009 by Bing Liu with Fortinet (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-0549 since 02/12/2009. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 39343 (MS09-021: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (969462)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110100 (Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS09-021)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 8233.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (50791), Tenable (39343), SecurityFocus (BID 35215†), OSVDB (54952†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1022351†). See VDB-37163, VDB-48554, VDB-48553 and VDB-48552 for similar entries. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 39343
Nessus Name: MS09-021: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (969462)
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OpenVAS ID: 900670
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (969462)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Bing Liu
Organization: Fortinet
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2009-0549 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-0549
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-48543

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X-Force: 50791
SecurityFocus: 35215 - Microsoft Excel Record Pointer Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
OSVDB: 54952 - Microsoft Office Excel Malformed Record Object Pointer Handling Remote Code Execution (2009-0549)
SecurityTracker: 1022351
Vulnerability Center: 22481 - [MS09-021] Microsoft Excel Record Pointer Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2009-1540

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Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 09/05/2019 20:13
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (82), 09/05/2019 20:13 (8)
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