MS10-038: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2027452) (Mac OS X)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50066

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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/ms10-038

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50066

File Name: macosx_ms10-038.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/20/2010

Updated: 7/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

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-2010-1253

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/uname, Host/MacOSX/packages

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2010

Exploitable With

CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)

Core Impact

Metasploit (MS11-038 Microsoft Office Excel Malformed OBJ Record Handling Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0821, CVE-2010-0822, CVE-2010-0823, CVE-2010-0824, CVE-2010-1245, CVE-2010-1248, CVE-2010-1249, CVE-2010-1250, CVE-2010-1251, CVE-2010-1252, CVE-2010-1253, CVE-2010-1254

BID: 40518, 40520, 40521, 40522, 40523, 40526, 40527, 40528, 40529, 40530, 40531, 40533

MSFT: MS10-038

MSKB: 2027452, 202886, 2028864, 2078051