[Full-disclosure] iDefense Security Advisory 10.14.08: Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications - Multiple Vulnerabilities

iDefense Security Advisory 10.14.08 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Oct 14, 2008 I. BACKGROUND Microsoft VBA is an implementation of Microsoft Visual Basic programming language for developing client desktop packaged applications and integrating them with existing data and...

Microsoft Excel VisualBasic Object Validation Code Execution (MS08-057; CVE-2008-3477)

Microsoft Excel is a popular spreadsheet application. A remote code execution vulnerability has been identified in the way Microsoft Excel processes compiled VBA Projects. The vulnerability is due to an error in Microsoft Excel that fails to perform sufficient validation when using the Calendar...

CVE-2006-3649

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA SDK 6.0 through 6.4, as used by Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Project 2000 SR1, Project 2002 SP1, Access 2000 Runtime SP3, Visio 2002 SP2, and Works Suite 2004 through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute...

CVE-2006-3649

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA SDK 6.0 through 6.4, as used by Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Project 2000 SR1, Project 2002 SP1, Access 2000 Runtime SP3, Visio 2002 SP2, and Works Suite 2004 through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute...

CVE-2006-3649

CVE-2006-3649 describes a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) across VBA SDK 6.0–6.4 used by Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, and related apps. The flaw stems from an improper boundary check / validation of document properties passed to VBA when ope...

CVE-2006-3649: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA SDK 6.0 through 6.4, as used by Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Project 2000 SR1, Project 2002 SP1, Access 2000 Runtime SP3, Visio 2002 SP2, and Works Suite 2004 through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute...

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications buffer overflow

Buffer oveflow on VBA script parsing...

MS06-047: Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Could Allow Remote Code Execution (921645)

The remote host is running a version of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications that is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when handling malformed documents. An attacker may exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on this host by sending a malformed file to a user of the remote host. C Tenable...

Computer Associates antivirus library buffer overflow

Heap overflow on OLE streams VBA projects analysis Microsoft Office documents...

[Full-disclosure] Computer Associates Vet Antivirus Library Remote Heap Overflow

Date May 23, 2005 Vulnerability Computer Associates Vet library provides antivirus scan engine capabilities. Vet scan engines allow products to analyze various streams for malware. Vet is vulnerable to an integer wrap during the analysis of an OLE stream. The integer wrap causes an arbitrary heap...

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) does not adequately validate document properties

Overview Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA contains a buffer overflow when validating document properties. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running VBA. Description From Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-037:Microsoft VB...

CVE-2003-0347

Vulnerability CVE-2003-0347 affects Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) 5.0–6.3 via heap-based overflow in VBE.DLL and VBE6.DLL. An attacker could supply a document with a long ID parameter to cause remote code execution. Impact is remote compromise with user privileges; affected compon...

CVE-2003-0347: Undefined Security Weakness

Heap-based buffer overflow in VBE.DLL and VBE6.DLL of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA SDK 5.0 through 6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a document with a long ID parameter...

CVE-2002-0619

The CVE-2002-0619 entry concerns Microsoft Word 2002 for Windows, where the Mail Merge Tool—when Microsoft Access is installed—allows remote attackers to run VBA scripts embedded in an HTML mail-merge document. This is identified as a variant of MS00-071 (CVE-2000-0788). Affected component: Word’...

Microsoft Word Mail Merge vulnerability

Microsoft Word document merged with Access database allows to execute VBA procedures without warning...

CVE-2000-0788

The CVE-2000-0788 family concerns the Mail Merge Tool in Microsoft Word. Connected records describe Word 2000/Word 2002 behavior: when Access is present, the Mail Merge tool can execute Visual Basic (VBA) scripts embedded in a mail-merge document saved as HTML, enabling remote command execution. ...

CVE-2000-0788: Undefined Security Weakness

The Mail Merge tool in Microsoft Word does not prompt the user before executing Visual Basic VBA scripts in an Access database, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

IE 5.01 will execute VBA code contained in Access databases when triggered from HTML code contained in an IFRAME

Overview Under certain conditions, Internet Explorer can open Microsoft Access database or project files containing malicious code and execute the code without giving a user prior warning. Access files that are referenced by OBJECT tags in HTML documents can allow attackers to execute arbitrary...

CVE-2000-0788

The Mail Merge tool in Microsoft Word does not prompt the user before executing Visual Basic VBA scripts in an Access database, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

CVE-2000-0597

The CVE-2000-0597 entry concerns Microsoft Office 2000 (Excel and PowerPoint) and PowerPoint 97. The vulnerability arises because these products are marked as safe for scripting, enabling a remote attacker to coax Internet Explorer or some email clients to save files to arbitrary locations via th...