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Vulnerability Assessment Details

Cumulative patches for Excel and Word for Windows

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the version of WinWord.exe and Excel.exe

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Excel.

Description :

The remote host has old versions of Word and Excel installed.
A possible hacker may use these to execute arbitrary code on this host.

To succeed, the attacker would have to send a rogue excel or word
file to the owner of this computer and have it open it.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Office 2000 and XP :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms02-031.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

High / CVSS Base Score : 8
(AV:R/AC:H/Au:NR/C:C/A:C/I:C/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 4821, 5063, 5064, 5066

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