CVE-2000-0765 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0765?

CVE-2000-0765 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 13 Oct 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the HTML interpreter in Microsoft Office 2000 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a long embedded object tag, aka the "Microsoft Office HTML Object Tag" vulnerability.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0765?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0765?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0765 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2000-0765 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0765 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel

• CVE-2019-1297 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2009-0238 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-7262 Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-3129 Microsoft Excel Featheader Record Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2008-0081 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8

All Microsoft Excel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rqm2-qh4g-xjjg.