CVE-2008-0113

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 42.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel document with malformed cell comments that trigger memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Cell Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

Microsoft Excel Viewer: 2003

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/29321
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489415/100/0/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019578
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0848/references
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-008
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-016
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5421
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/29321
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489415/100/0/threaded

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