MS11-036 / MS11-045: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2545814 / 2537146) (Mac OS X)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55135

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 has a version of Microsoft Office that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

If a remote attacker can trick a user into opening a malicious PowerPoint or Excel file using the affected install, these vulnerabilities could be leveraged to execute arbitrary code subject to the user's privileges.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Office for Mac 2011, Office 2008 for Mac, Office 2004 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.

See Also

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-036

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-045

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55135

File Name: macosx_ms_office_jun2011.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 6/15/2011

Updated: 11/27/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office:2004::mac, cpe:/a:microsoft:office:2008::mac, cpe:/a:microsoft:office:2011::mac, cpe:/a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:::mac

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2011

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1269, CVE-2011-1270, CVE-2011-1272, CVE-2011-1273, CVE-2011-1274, CVE-2011-1275, CVE-2011-1276, CVE-2011-1277, CVE-2011-1278, CVE-2011-1279

BID: 47699, 47700, 48157, 48158, 48159, 48160, 48161, 48162, 48163, 48164

IAVA: 2011-A-0086-S

MSFT: MS11-036, MS11-045

MSKB: 2537146, 2545814, 2555784, 2555785, 2555786, 2555787