Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel, which allows a remote attacker to compromise a system through a malicious document.
Impact:
Remote code execution.
Risk:
High
Affected Software:
For a list of affected software, please refer to the Microsoft Security Bulletin reference below.
Additional Information:
One memory corruption vulnerability was discovered in Microsoft Office Excel:
Memory corruption in "excel.exe" (CVE-2010-0823)
The vulnerability is triggered when opening and rendering an Excel file. A remote attacker could craft a malicious document which exploits this vulnerability, allowing them to compromise a system.
Solutions:
FortiGuard Labs released the following signature to protect against this vulnerability:
