Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-5672 - Denial of Service vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, Excel Viewer and Office
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Microsoft Excel Viewer (aka Xlview.exe) and Excel in Microsoft Office 2007 (aka Office 12) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read access violation and application crash) via a crafted spreadsheet file, as demonstrated by a .xls file with battery voltage data.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 |
Exploit-Db
| description | Microsoft Office Excel Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2012-5672. Dos exploit for windows platform |
| id | EDB-ID:37980 |
| last seen | 2016-02-04 |
| modified | 2012-10-11 |
| published | 2012-10-11 |
| reporter | Jean Pascal Pereira |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/37980/ |
| title | Microsoft Office Excel Denial of Service Vulnerability |
Seebug
| bulletinFamily | exploit |
| description | CVE ID: CVE-2012-5672 Microsoft Office是一款微软开发的流行的办公软件套件。 Microsoft Office 2007中的Microsoft Excel Viewer (Xlview.exe)和Excel处理特制的.xls文件存在读访问冲突，允许攻击者利用漏洞使应用程序崩溃。 0 Microsoft Office 2007 厂商解决方案 目前没有详细解决方案提供： http://www.microsoft.com |
| id | SSV:60448 |
| last seen | 2017-11-19 |
| modified | 2012-10-30 |
| published | 2012-10-30 |
| reporter | Root |
| title | Microsoft Excel Viewer/Excel xls文件内存破坏漏洞 |