Microsoft Excel 2007/2010/2013 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

vendor:

Microsoft Excel

by:

Google Security Research

7,8

CVSS

HIGH

Memory Corruption

119

CWE

Product Name: Microsoft Excel

Affected Version From: Microsoft Excel 2007

Affected Version To: Microsoft Excel 2013

Patch Exists: Yes

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: microsoft:excel

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows 2003 R2, Windows 7 x86, Windows 8.1 x86

2014

Microsoft Excel 2007/2010/2013 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

This vulnerability was observed in Microsoft Excel 2007 running on Windows 2003 R2. This crash was also reproduced in Microsoft Excel 2010 on Windows 7 x86 and Microsoft Excel 2013 on Windows 8.1 x86. The test environment was Excel 2007 on Windows 2003 R2 with application verifier basic checks enabled. The minimized crashing file shows two deltas from the original. The first at offset 0x237 is in the data of the 4th BIFFRecord and the second delta at offset 0x34a5 is in the type field of a BIFFRecord.

Mitigation:

Apply the latest security patches and updates to the affected software.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=462

The following crash was observed in Microsoft Excel 2007 running on Windows 2003 R2. This crash was also reproduced in Microsoft Excel 2010 on Windows 7 x86 and Microsoft Excel 2013 on Windows 8.1 x86. The test environment was Excel 2007 on Windows 2003 R2 with application verifier basic checks enabled.

Attached files:
Original File: 683709058_orig.xls
Crashing File: 683709058_crash.xls
Minimized Crashing File: 683709058_min.xls

The minimized crashing file shows two deltas from the original. The first at offset 0x237 is in the data of the 4th BIFFRecord and the second delta at offset 0x34a5 is in the type field of a BIFFRecord. 

File versions:
Excel.exe: 12.0.6718.5000
MSO.dll: 12.0.6721.5000

Observed Crash:

eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=0ce119f8 edx=00003fff esi=0e98de10 edi=0013c82c
eip=30037cc5 esp=00137180 ebp=00137188 iopl=0         nv up ei pl nz na po nc
cs=001b  ss=0023  ds=0023  es=0023  fs=003b  gs=0000             efl=00010202
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols for Excel.exe - 
Excel!Ordinal40+0x37cc5:
30037cc5 0fb64604        movzx   eax,byte ptr [esi+4]       ds:0023:0e98de14=??

0:000> kb L8
ChildEBP RetAddr  Args to Child              
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
00137188 303df098 0e98de10 00000000 00000102 Excel!Ordinal40+0x37cc5
0013d068 30528190 0013d0a8 00000102 00000000 Excel!Ordinal40+0x3df098
0013d2bc 305280b1 00000000 00000001 00000008 Excel!Ordinal40+0x528190
0013d330 3038d46d 0013ddf2 00000000 00000001 Excel!Ordinal40+0x5280b1
0013e000 300084a4 0013e104 00000001 0013f568 Excel!Ordinal40+0x38d46d
0013fbb0 30005e9a 02270fd7 00000003 30f61708 Excel!Ordinal40+0x84a4
0013feb8 30003b3a 00000000 02270fd7 00000003 Excel!Ordinal40+0x5e9a
0013ff30 30003884 30000000 00000000 02270fd7 Excel!Ordinal40+0x3b3a

In this crash esi is a heap address. We can see that this is a free chunk:

0:000> !heap -p -a 0xe98de10
    address 0e98de10 found in
    _DPH_HEAP_ROOT @ 1161000
    in free-ed allocation (  DPH_HEAP_BLOCK:         VirtAddr         VirtSize)
                                    e7f0fc0:          e98d000             2000
    7c83e330 ntdll!RtlFreeHeap+0x0000011a
    018b1611 vfbasics!AVrfpRtlFreeHeap+0x000000a8
    331039d5 mso!Ordinal1743+0x00002d4d
    329c91d1 mso!MsoFreePv+0x0000003f
    30298310 Excel!Ordinal40+0x00298310
    30300ac3 Excel!Ordinal40+0x00300ac3
    305f1899 Excel!Ordinal40+0x005f1899 

This is a use after free vulnerability affecting all currently supported versions of Microsoft Excel. 

Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/38214.zip