CVE-2007-3490 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2007-3490?

CVE-2007-3490 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 29 Jun 2007. 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

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via unspecified vectors, possibly related to the sheet name, as demonstrated by 2670.xls.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3490?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Excel.

How do I fix CVE-2007-3490?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-3490 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-2007-3490 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-3490 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-gv8q-4r76-rh77.