CVE-2005-4131 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2005-4131?

CVE-2005-4131 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 9 Dec 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed range, which could lead to memory corruption involving an argument to the msvcrt.memmove function, aka "Brand new Microsoft Excel Vulnerability," as originally placed for sale on eBay as item number 7203336538.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4131?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Excel.

How do I fix CVE-2005-4131?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4131 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-2005-4131 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-4131 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hm75-8hcq-5577.