CVE-2008-4265 (GCVE-0-2008-4265)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-10 13:33 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:08
VLAI?
Summary
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel spreadsheet that contains a malformed object, which triggers memory corruption during the loading of records from this spreadsheet, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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