MS10-017: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (980150) (Mac OS X)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50065

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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 Excel that is affected by several vulnerabilities.

If an attacker can trick a user on the affected host into opening a specially crafted Excel 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/ms10-017

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50065

File Name: macosx_ms10-017.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/20/2010

Updated: 7/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0264

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: 3/9/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2010

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0258, CVE-2010-0262, CVE-2010-0263, CVE-2010-0264

BID: 38550, 38553, 38554, 38555

MSFT: MS10-017

MSKB: 980150, 980837, 980839, 980840