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HistoryNov 15, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Microsoft Excel Feature11/Feature12 Record Trusted Counter Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2012-11-1500:00:00
Anonymous
www.zerodayinitiative.com
15

0.924 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.0%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Excel. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within Excel’s parsing of Feature11/Feature12 records. The process trusts a supplied counter value without validating its size and proceeds to use it within a copy operation to the stack. An attacker can abuse this to execute arbitrary code under the context of the user running Excel.