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Microsoft Office: CVE-2017-11878: Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Microsoft Office: CVE-2017-11878: Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/15/2017
Created
06/27/2023
Added
06/20/2023
Modified
06/20/2023

Description

Microsoft Excel 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Excel 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1, Microsoft Excel 2013 RT Service Pack 1, Microsoft Excel 2016, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3, and Microsoft Excel Viewer 2007 Service Pack 3 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Excel Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

Solution(s)

  • microsoft-excel_2016-kb4011220

References

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