Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Microsoft Excel Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

MS.Excel.Obj.BIFF.Record.Memory.Corruption
Released Oct 06, 2010
Users should apply the solution provided by Microsoft.

Additional Information

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.

References

• https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms11-045

• CVE-2011-1272

Acknowledgement

Bing Liu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

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