Sploitus

Exploit for Microsoft Excel Data Validation Record Parsing Overflow

CVE-2011-0105

saint · 2011-06-15

Exploit Code

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## https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=SAINT:8FDD1727EA3EF9E282DFCB5EB73BAB71
Added: 06/15/2011  
CVE: [CVE-2011-0105](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2011-0105>)  
BID: [47256](<http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47256>)  
OSVDB: [71765](<http://www.osvdb.org/71765>)  


### Background

Microsoft Excel, part of the [Microsoft Office](<http://office.microsoft.com>) product suite, is a spreadsheet application for Windows and Macintosh platforms. 

### Problem

Microsoft Excel 2002 versions lacking the patch detailed in Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-021 contain an improper initialization bug of a value that is used to allocate memory. If an attacker can get a target to open a specially formatted Excel document, they may be able to exploit this bug to execute arbitrary code on the target's system. 

### Resolution

Apply the patch outlined in [Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-021](<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-021.mspx>). 

### References

<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-021.mspx>  
<http://secunia.com/advisories/39122>  


### Limitations

This exploit has been tested against Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 with KB2345017 running on Microsoft Windows XP SP3 English (DEP OptIn) and Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (DEP OptIn), where the version of excel.exe was 10.0.6866. 

### Platforms

Windows