CVE-2011-0979: Microsoft Excel

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 26.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Microsoft Excel: affected versions not specified; version 2002 only; version 2003 only; version 2007 only; version 2010 only
• Microsoft Excel Viewer: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Office: version 2004 only; version 2008 only; version 2011 only
• Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack: version 2007 only
• Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter: any version

Published 2011-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.