MS08-072 / MS08-074: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957173 / 959070) (Mac OS X)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50060

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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 Word 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, Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.

See Also

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms08-072

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms08-074

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50060

File Name: macosx_ms_office_dec2008.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/20/2010

Updated: 11/27/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

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-2008-4266

Vulnerability Information

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

Required KB Items: Host/uname, Host/MacOSX/packages

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/9/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4024, CVE-2008-4025, CVE-2008-4026, CVE-2008-4027, CVE-2008-4028, CVE-2008-4031, CVE-2008-4264, CVE-2008-4266

BID: 32579, 32580, 32581, 32583, 32585, 32594, 32621, 32622

CWE: 399

MSFT: MS08-072, MS08-074

MSKB: 957173, 959070, 960401, 960402, 960403