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S-227: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel (MS08-014)

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Old 11-13-2008
S-227: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel (MS08-014)
Remote code vulnerabilities exist in the way Excel: 1) processes data validation records when loading Excel files into memory; 2) handles data when importing files into Excel; 3) Style record data when opening Excel files; 4) handles malformed formulas; 5) handles rich text values when loading application data into memory; 6) handles conditional formatting values; and 7) handles macros when opening specially crafted Excel files. The risk is MEDIUM. An attacker could exploit the vulnerabilities by sending malformed files which could be hosted on a specially crafted or compromised Web site, or included as an e-mail attachment.


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pyexcelerator

PYEXCELERATOR(1)					      General Commands Manual						  PYEXCELERATOR(1)

NAME

       pyexcelerator - a module for reading/writing Excel spreadsheet files

SYNOPSIS

       pyexcelerator

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       pyExcelerator  is a Python module that can generate Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 spreadsheet files. It can also extract data from these files.	It
       supports Unicode in Excel files, and can use a variety of formatting features and printing options. It can dump	Excel  and  OLE2  compound
       files.

       Numerous examples of usage can be found in the examples/ directory.

       Additions utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory.

OPTIONS

       This program does not take any command line options.

AUTHOR

       pyexcelerator was written by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>.

       This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted
       to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by
       the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

SEE-ALSO
       py_xls2csv(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1)

								 October 12, 2006						  PYEXCELERATOR(1)