iDefense Security Advisory 11.10.09 - Remote exploitation of a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Excel could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user. The vulnerability occurs when parsing a FEATHEADER record within an Excel file. This record is used to store information common to multiple other records, and was introduced with Excel 2002 (XP). When certain fields of this record are set to a trigger value, it is possible to corrupt memory in such a way that the next 4 bytes in the record are treated as an object pointer. This pointer is then used to make a virtual function call, which results in the execution of arbitrary code. iDefense has confirmed the existence of this vulnerability in Excel versions 2007, 2003, and XP. The record that causes the vulnerability is not supported by Excel 2000, so it is not affected by this vulnerability.
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