Denial of Service Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel Viewer and Excel 2007

CVE-2012-5672 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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