Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 15, 2009· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2009-0100
CVE-2009-0100
Description
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP1; Excel in Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Microsoft Office Excel Viewer and Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 do not properly parse the Excel spreadsheet file format, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet that contains a malformed object with "an offset and a two-byte value" that trigger a memory calculation error, aka "Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
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Affected products
12- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP1, 2004 for Mac, 2008 for Mac, Excel Viewer, Excel Viewer 2003 SP3, Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel_viewer:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 2003 SP3
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References
8- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.htmlnvdUS Government Resource
- osvdb.org/53665nvd
- www.fortiguardcenter.com/advisory/FGA-2009-16.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502696/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1023nvd
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-009nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6043nvd
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