MS08-014 / MS08-016: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (949029 / 949030) (Mac OS X)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50056

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Synopsis

An application installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities.

Description

The remote Mac OS X host is running a version of Microsoft Office that is affected by several vulnerabilities.

If an attacker can trick a user on the affected host into opening a specially crafted Excel or Office file, these issues could be leveraged to execute arbitrary code subject to the user's privileges.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Office 2004 for Mac and Office 2008 for Mac.

See Also

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms08-014

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms08-016

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50056

File Name: macosx_ms_office_mar2008.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/20/2010

Updated: 11/27/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-0118

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office:2004::mac, cpe:/a:microsoft:office:2008::mac

Required KB Items: Host/MacOSX/packages

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2008

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0081, CVE-2008-0111, CVE-2008-0112, CVE-2008-0114, CVE-2008-0115, CVE-2008-0116, CVE-2008-0117, CVE-2008-0118

BID: 27305, 28094, 28095, 28146, 28166, 28167, 28168, 28170

CWE: 94

MSFT: MS08-014, MS08-016

MSKB: 949029, 949030, 949357