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CVE detail

CVE-2008-0118

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document that triggers memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

CVSS 9.3 · CriticalBuzz score 11.9

Buzz score

Why this CVE is surfacing

Buzz score total 11.9

This all-time snapshot uses the same composite formula as Trending across a 30-year evidence window, rather than a current rolling window.

Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Mention score
6.9
1 evidence mentions in the snapshot
Diversity score
5.0
1 sources across 1 categories
KEV score
0.0
No KEV entry observed
OTX score
0.0
0 OTX pulses
PoC score
0.0
0 repos · best confidence N/A
Best PoC traction
0
Maximum stars on a matched PoC repo

Why it matters now

Mention timeline

Total mentions
0
within the 30d window
Peak daily
0
highest bucket

Evidence

Source links by recency

Newest mentions first
1 source links · newest first
  • OfficeCat is a command line utility developed by the Sourcefire VRT that can be used to process Microsoft Office Documents to determine the presence of potential exploit conditions in the file. Officecat is available for Windows and Linux. Vulnerabilities checked by OfficeCat: CVE-2006-0001 CVE-2006-1301 CVE-2006-1306 CVE-2006-1308 CVE-2006-1540 CVE-2006-2492 CVE-2006-3014 CVE-2006-3086 CVE-2006-3431 CVE-2006-3432 CVE-2006-3493 CVE-2006-3590 CVE-2006-3656 CVE-2006-3864 CVE-2006-3865 CVE-2006-3875 CVE-2006-3876 CVE-2006-3877 CVE-2006-4534 CVE-2006-4694 CVE-2006-4700 CVE-2006-4701 CVE-2006-5994 CVE-2006-5995 CVE-2006-6456 CVE-2006-6561 CVE-2007-0027 CVE-2007-0030 CVE-2007-0031 CVE-2007-0515 CVE-2007-0671 CVE-2007-1203 CVE-2007-1214 … More →

    newswww.helpnetsecurity.comNov 2, 2009, 3:02 PM

Exploit code

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