vulnerability

Microsoft CVE-2018-8627: Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 11, 2018
Added
Dec 11, 2018
Modified
Jun 3, 2019

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel software reads out of bound memory due to an uninitialized variable, which could disclose the contents of memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view out of bound memory.
Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel software.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by properly initializing the affected variable.

Solutions

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