Microsoft Excel up to 2016 Office Document memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Microsoft Excel up to 2016. This affects an unknown function of the component Office Document Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2016-0035. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Excel up to 2016 (Spreadsheet Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code 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, Excel 2016, Excel for Mac 2011, Excel 2016 for Mac, Office Compatibility Pack SP3, and Excel Viewer allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

The weakness was released 01/12/2016 by Steven Seeley with Zero Day Initiative as MS16-004 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). It is possible to read the advisory at technet.microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-0035 since 12/04/2015. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 87882 (MS16-004: Security Update for Microsoft Office to Address Remote Code Execution (3124585)), 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 110263 (Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS16-004)).

Applying the patch MS16-004 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at technet.microsoft.com. 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 20831.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (87882), SecurityFocus (BID 80028†), SecurityTracker (ID 1034651†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-55656†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-80206, VDB-80216, VDB-80217 and VDB-80218. 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: 87882
Nessus Name: MS16-004: Security Update for Microsoft Office to Address Remote Code Execution (3124585)
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OpenVAS ID: 802074
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Multiple Vulnerabilities (3124585) (Mac OS X)
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS16-004
Researcher: Steven Seeley
Organization: Zero Day Initiative
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2016-0035 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-0035
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-80231
SecurityFocus: 80028 - Microsoft Office CVE-2016-0035 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1034651
Vulnerability Center: 55656 - [MS16-004] Microsoft Excel, Excel Viewer and Office Compatibility Pack Remote Code Execution - CVE-2016-0035, Critical

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Created: 01/14/2016 10:44
Updated: 06/21/2018 08:59
Changes: 01/14/2016 10:44 (65), 06/21/2018 08:59 (29)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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