{"cve":"CVE-2011-0979","nvd":{"published":"2011-02-10T19:00:01.940","modified":"2026-06-16T23:28:21.843","status":"Modified","description":"Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a \"stray reference,\" aka \"Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability.\"","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-20"],"references":["http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft","http://osvdb.org/70904","http://secunia.com/advisories/39122","http://secunia.com/advisories/43231","http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337"],"products":["microsoft:excel","microsoft:excel_viewer","microsoft:office","microsoft:office_compatibility_pack","microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:57:56.749847046+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2011-0979","score":0.26523,"percentile":0.98014,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}