Intrusion PreventionMS.Excel.Record.Parsing.Memory.Corruption
Description
This indicates a possible attack against a file-parsing buffer-overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Excel.
The vulnerability is caused by an error when the vulnerable software parses an Excel file with a malformed record. An attacker may exploit this to execute arbitrary code by enticing a victim to open a malicious Excel file.
Affected Products
Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 0
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 0
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP2
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP1
Microsoft Excel 2002
Impact
System compromise
Recommended Actions
Apply the patch supplied by the vendor:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-080.mspx
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 24578 |
| Created | Mar 04, 2011 |
| Updated | Jun 07, 2022 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2010-3231 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 96.92% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows |
| Affected App | MS_Office |