>> Microsoft Excel Style Handling and Repair Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (MS06-059)
Title : Microsoft Excel Style Handling and Repair Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (MS06-059) VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2689 CVE ID : CVE-2006-3431
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-07-06
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Excel, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a memory corruption error when handling or repairing a document containing a malformed STYLE record, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by convincing a user to open or repair a specially crafted Excel file.
Note : This issue only affects Asian language (Japanese, Korean, and Chinese) versions of the product.
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