CVE-2008-3471
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Office Excel Viewer 2003 SP3;…
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Office Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; Office Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BIFF file with a malformed record that triggers a user-influenced size calculation, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 52.3% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- excel-file-format-code-execution(45579) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5750 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-068/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- SSRT080143 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 1021044 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2808 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31705 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS08-057 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- win-ms08kb956416-update(45581) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- TA08-288A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 32211 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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