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FKIE_CVE-2008-4019

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-10-15 00:12 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:57

Severity

Summary

Integer overflow in the REPT function in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Office Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; Office Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office SharePoint Server 2007 Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file containing a formula within a cell, aka "Formula Parsing Vulnerability."

References

URL	Tags
secure@microsoft.com	http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2	Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secure@microsoft.com	http://secunia.com/advisories/32211	Patch, Vendor Advisory
secure@microsoft.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31706	Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secure@microsoft.com	http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021044	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secure@microsoft.com	http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
secure@microsoft.com	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2808	Third Party Advisory
secure@microsoft.com	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-057	Patch, Vendor Advisory
secure@microsoft.com	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45580	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secure@microsoft.com	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45581	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secure@microsoft.com	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6102	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2	Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/32211	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31706	Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021044	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2808	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-057	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45580	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45581	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6102	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
microsoft	excel	2003
microsoft	excel	2003
microsoft	excel	2007
microsoft	excel	2007
microsoft	excel_viewer	-
microsoft	excel_viewer	2003
microsoft	excel_viewer	2003
microsoft	office	2004
microsoft	office	2008
microsoft	office_compatibility_pack	2007
microsoft	office_compatibility_pack	2007
microsoft	open_xml_file_format_converter	-
microsoft	sharepoint_server	2007
microsoft	sharepoint_server	2007
microsoft	sharepoint_server	2007
microsoft	sharepoint_server	2007

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        "US Government Resource"
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    },
    {
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    {
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    },
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CVE-2008-4019 (GCVE-0-2008-4019)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-15 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:00

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

microsoft mitre root

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021044	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2808	vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://secunia.com/advisories/32211	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31706	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Date Public

2008-10-14 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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