Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2 Office Document memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Office Document Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2016-0139. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2 (Spreadsheet Software) (version unknown) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown function 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 2010 SP2, Word for Mac 2011, and Excel Viewer allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

The weakness was shared 04/12/2016 as MS16-042 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared at technet.microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-0139 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. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 90430 (MS16-042: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3148775) (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 110271 (Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS16-042)).

Applying the patch MS16-042 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 24133.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (90430) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-58123†). The entries VDB-82224, VDB-82225 and VDB-82228 are related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 90430
Nessus Name: MS16-042: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3148775) (Mac OS X)
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OpenVAS ID: 802074
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Muliple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities-3148775(Mac OS X)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS16-042
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2016-0139 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-0139
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-82229

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SecurityTracker: 1035525
Vulnerability Center: 58123 - [MS16-042] Microsoft Excel, Word for Mac 2011, and Excel Viewer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - CVE-2016-0139, Critical

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Created: 04/13/2016 10:02
Updated: 07/13/2022 21:22
Changes: 04/13/2016 10:02 (73), 02/04/2019 12:59 (11), 07/13/2022 21:22 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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