MS09-067 / MS09-068: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (972652 / 976307) (Mac OS X)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50063

Synopsis

An application installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities.

Description

The remote Mac OS X host is running a version of Microsoft Office that is affected by several vulnerabilities.

If an attacker can trick a user on the affected host into opening a specially crafted Excel or Word file, these issues could be leveraged to execute arbitrary code subject to the user's privileges.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.

See Also

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms09-067

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms09-068

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50063

File Name: macosx_ms_office_nov2009.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/20/2010

Updated: 7/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-3135

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:::mac, cpe:/a:microsoft:office:2004::mac, cpe:/a:microsoft:office:2008::mac

Required KB Items: Host/MacOSX/packages, Host/uname

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2009

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/24/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (MS09-067 Microsoft Excel Malformed FEATHEADER Record Vulnerability)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3127, CVE-2009-3129, CVE-2009-3130, CVE-2009-3131, CVE-2009-3132, CVE-2009-3133, CVE-2009-3134, CVE-2009-3135

BID: 36908, 36909, 36911, 36912, 36943, 36945, 36946, 36950

CWE: 94

MSFT: MS09-067, MS09-068

MSKB: 972652, 976307, 976828, 976830, 976831