MS09-009: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Cause Remote Code Execution (968557)

high Nessus Plugin ID 36147

Synopsis

It is possible to execute arbitrary code on the remote Windows host using Microsoft Excel.

Description

The remote host contains a version of Microsoft Excel / Excel Viewer / 2007 Microsoft Office system and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack that is affected by two memory corruption vulnerabilities. If an attacker can trick a user on the affected host into opening a specially crafted Excel file, either of these issues could be leveraged to run arbitrary code on the host subject to the user's privileges.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2007, Excel Viewer and Excel Viewer 2003 as well as the 2007 Microsoft Office system and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.

See Also

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2009/ms09-009

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36147

File Name: smb_nt_ms09-009.nasl

Version: 1.33

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 4/15/2009

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0100, CVE-2009-0238

BID: 33870, 34413

CWE: 399, 94

MSFT: MS09-009

MSKB: 959964, 959988, 959993, 959995, 959997, 960000, 960003