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Relase Date: 2006-03-15
CVE: CVE-2006-0031
Affected Products:
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Microsoft Office Excel 2000
Microsoft Office Excel XP
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Impact:
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Microsoft Excel is a popular spreadsheet program of Microsoft Office
product.
Eyas of XFOCUS Security Team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability
when Excel processes a malicous ".xls" file, which might cause Excel to
crash or even execute arbitrary code.
Description:
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Excel will initialize a stack buffer with 0x0e0e0e0e when it open a
".xls" file, but Excel uses a user-supplied length which will cause a
stack buffer overflow.
The following code is from excel v9.0.0.8924
.text:3003FE0C movzx eax, word ptr [ebx]
.text:3003FE0F xor ecx, ecx
.text:3003FE11 cmp eax, 0Eh
.text:3003FE14 mov [ebp+var_8], ecx
.text:3003FE17 jg loc_301C01B5
.text:301C01B5 mov byte ptr [ebp+ecx+var_138], cl
.text:301C01BC inc ecx
.text:301C01BD cmp ecx, 0Eh
.text:301C01C0 jle short loc_301C01B5
.text:301C01C2 cmp ecx, eax
.text:301C01C4 mov [ebp-8], ecx
.text:301C01C7 jg loc_3003FFC9
.text:301C01CD sub eax, ecx
.text:301C01CF lea edi, [ebp+ecx+var_138]
.text:301C01D6 inc eax
.text:301C01D7 mov edx, eax
.text:301C01D9 mov eax, 0E0E0E0Eh
.text:301C01DE mov ecx, edx
.text:301C01E0 mov esi, ecx
.text:301C01E2 shr ecx, 2
.text:301C01E5 rep stosd <== buffer overflow
Vendor Status:
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2005.12.27 Informed the vendor.
2006.01.03 The vendor confirmed the vulnerability.
2006.03.14 The vendor releases a new version to fix the vulnerability.
The vendor has released patch to fix this vulnerability, which is
available for download at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-012.mspx
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Kind Regards,
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XFOCUS Security Team
http://www.xfocus.org
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