Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to insufficient validation of an index value in the NAME record and can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted Excel Spreadsheet (XLS) file. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 and Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3 are affected.
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