MS09-009: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Cause Remote Code Execution (968557) (Mac OS X)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50061

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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 Excel that is affected by several vulnerabilities.

If an attacker can trick a user on the affected host into opening a specially crafted Excel 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/ms09-009

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50061

File Name: macosx_ms09-009.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-2009-0238

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0100, CVE-2009-0238

BID: 33870, 34413

CWE: 94

MSFT: MS09-009

MSKB: 968557, 968694, 968695