Microsoft Excel up to 2013 SP1 Office Document memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3/2010 SP2/2011/2013 RT SP1/2013 SP1. This affects an unknown part of the component Office Document Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2015-2376. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3/2010 SP2/2011/2013 RT SP1/2013 SP1 (Spreadsheet Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Office Document Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, Excel 2013 SP1, Excel 2013 RT SP1, Office for Mac 2011, Excel Viewer 2007 SP3, Office Compatibility Pack SP3, Excel Services on SharePoint Server 2007 SP3, Excel Services on SharePoint Server 2010 SP2, and Excel Services on SharePoint Server 2013 SP1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Office document, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

The weakness was presented 07/14/2015 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at technet.microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-2376 since 03/19/2015. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 84740 , 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 110257 (Microsoft Office Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS15-070)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 20187.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (84740), SecurityFocus (BID 75639†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-51205†). See VDB-76462, VDB-76464, VDB-76465 and VDB-76466 for similar entries. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 84740
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OpenVAS ID: 802074
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities-3072620 (Mac OS X)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: technet.microsoft.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2015-2376 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-2376
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-76463

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SecurityFocus: 75639
SecurityTracker: 1032899
Vulnerability Center: 51205 - [MS15-070] Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution due to Memory Corruption - CVE-2015-2376, Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/15/2015 13:49
Updated: 05/31/2022 14:35
Changes: 07/15/2015 13:49 (60), 07/12/2017 12:13 (6), 05/31/2022 14:30 (3), 05/31/2022 14:35 (1)
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