From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2007 - 04:47:05 CST

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TITLE:
Microsoft Excel Unspecified Code Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23676

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23676/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Works Suite 2006
http://secunia.com/product/8712/
Microsoft Works Suite 2005
http://secunia.com/product/8711/
Microsoft Works Suite 2004
http://secunia.com/product/3897/
Microsoft Office XP
http://secunia.com/product/23/
Microsoft Office X for Mac
http://secunia.com/product/2610/
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
http://secunia.com/product/8713/
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
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Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2275/
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2277/
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition
http://secunia.com/product/2276/
Microsoft Office 2000
http://secunia.com/product/24/
Microsoft Excel 2000
http://secunia.com/product/3054/
Microsoft Excel 2002
http://secunia.com/product/4043/
Microsoft Excel 2003
http://secunia.com/product/4970/
Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003
http://secunia.com/product/7700/

DESCRIPTION:
Jie Ma has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when opening
XLS files using Internet Explorer. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary code via a specially crafted XLS file with a certain
unspecified opcode.

SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted Office documents.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jie Ma, Fortinet Security Research Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/advisory/FG-2006-30.html

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