Well, sometimes it seems that yours truly and super collegiate wonder boy (ie, billy) are joined at the medulla oblongata. On the heels of his recent post, I would like to offer to our readers notice of an exceptionally nasty Word vulnerability. MS07-060 security bulletin states that this exploit allows “remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word file with a malformed string.”
This is a privately reported vulnerability, but it is being actively exploited. The following versions are affected:
Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft Word 2002
The solution is to apply the following patches:
Microsoft Office 2000 SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de…=8B3072FB-5933-47F7-A498-13A93E268E57
Microsoft Office XP SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de…=D6B787BB-03FF-4F67-8B69-6011FB18BA75
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx#Office2004
Sources: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-060 & Secunia

October 10th, 2007
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