CVE-2008-4265 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2008-4265?

CVE-2008-4265 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 10 Dec 2008. 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

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel spreadsheet that contains a malformed object, which triggers memory corruption during the loading of records from this spreadsheet, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4265?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word Excel Ppt 2007, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Excel Viewer, Microsoft Open Xml File Format Converter.

How do I fix CVE-2008-4265?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4265 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-2008-4265 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x5pp-pmr4-95cm.