CVE-2008-4264

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

10/12/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel spreadsheet that contains a malformed formula, which triggers "pointer corruption" during the loading of formulas from this spreadsheet, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

9.30

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2000:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2002:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2003:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2007:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2007:sp1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:20007_office_system::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:20007_office_system:sp1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007::sp1::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel_viewer::::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2000:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2002:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2003:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2007:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2007:sp1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:20007_office_system::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:20007_office_system:sp1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007::sp1::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel_viewer::::::::

CVE-2008-4264

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools