CVE-2011-0979
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and…
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- mitre
Description
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 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)
- 26.5% · top 2.0% of all CVEs (9 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 (10)
- TA11-102A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 39122 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 43231 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12595 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 1025337 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- MS11-021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 70904 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0940 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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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