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CVE-2007-0029 (GCVE-0-2007-0029)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-01-09 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:03
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed string, aka "Excel Malformed String Vulnerability."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://securitytracker.com/id?1017487 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457274/100… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21877 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0103 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
http://www.osvdb.org/31256 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2007-01-09 00:00
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