CVE-2005-4131 (GCVE-0-2005-4131)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-12-09 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:31
VLAI
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed range, which could lead to memory corruption involving an argument to the msvcrt.memmove function, aka "Brand new Microsoft Excel Vulnerability," as originally placed for sale on eBay as item number 7203336538.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2193 records in the last 180 days details
References
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15780 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-5988086.html x_refsource_MISC
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Date Public
2005-12-07 00:00
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