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Microsoft Office Excel EDG Heap Overflow

VUPEN Vulnerability Research Team discovered a critical vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office Excel. The vulnerability is caused by a heap overflow error when processing malformed EDG (recType 0x88) and Publisher (recType 0x89) records, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Excel document.

 

You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/90526/msexceledg-overflow.txt

Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/90526/Microsoft-Office-Excel-EDG-Heap-Overflow.html

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