FKIE_CVE-2006-0028
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-03-14 23:02 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:19
Severity
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 a BIFF parsing format file containing malformed BOOLERR records that lead to memory corruption, probably involving invalid pointers.
References
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