CVE-2010-1245 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-1245?

CVE-2010-1245 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 8 Jun 2010. 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 Office Excel 2002 SP3, Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed SxView (0xB0) record, aka "Excel Record Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0824 and CVE-2010-0821.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1245?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Open Xml File Format Converter.

How do I fix CVE-2010-1245?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-1245 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-2010-1245 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-1245 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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-8fh9-fccm-v79p.