Skip to main content

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVE-2009-0558

High
9.3/10

Summary

Array index error in Excel in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file with a malformed record object, aka "Array Indexing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published