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Zero Day Initiative Advisory 08-08

Zero Day Initiative Advisory 08-08
Posted Mar 13, 2008
Authored by Tipping Point, Arnaud Dovi | Site zerodayinitiative.com

A vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office. Exploitation requires that the attacker coerce the target into opening a malicious .XLS file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of malformed cell comments. When Excel encounters a malformed record it attempts to rebuild the broken meta-data. A flaw in this rebuilding process allows the user to specify critical data offsets eventually leading to code execution under the logged in users credentials.

tags | advisory, remote, arbitrary, code execution
advisories | CVE-2008-0113
SHA-256 | 4cf43f9561e5a5e4d745658e0eb4739ce0e1b5b461cdd5424899992f213d97b0

Zero Day Initiative Advisory 08-08

Change Mirror Download
ZDI-08-008: Microsoft Excel BIFF File Format Cell Record Parsing Memory 
Corruption Vulnerability
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-008
March 11, 2008

-- CVE ID:
CVE-2008-0113

-- Affected Vendors:
Microsoft

-- Affected Products:
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer

-- TippingPoint(TM) IPS Customer Protection:
TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this
vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 5338.
For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS, visit:

http://www.tippingpoint.com

-- Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office. Exploitation requires that
the attacker coerce the target into opening a malicious .XLS file.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of malformed cell comments.
When Excel encounters a malformed record it attempts to rebuild the
broken meta-data. A flaw in this rebuilding process allows the user to
specify critical data offsets eventually leading to code execution under
the logged in users credentials.


-- Vendor Response:
Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More
details can be found at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-016.mspx

-- Disclosure Timeline:
2007-05-22 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2008-03-11 - Coordinated public release of advisory

-- Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by:
* Arnaud Dovi - ad@heapoverflow.com

-- About the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI):
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disclosing discovered vulnerabilities.

Researchers interested in getting paid for their security research
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used. TippingPoint does not re-sell the vulnerability details or any
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