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May 13th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches
Microsoft on Tuesday delivered four critical patches for vulnerabilities Office and Windows XP. There were six patches delivered. Here's a look by the CVE: CVE-2008-1091: Microsoft patched an object parsing vulnerability in Microsoft Word. Affected software includes Office 2000, 2003 and 2007. Microsoft explains: A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office handles specially crafted Rich Text Format (.rtf) files. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted .rtf file with malformed strings in Word or previews a specially crafted .rtf file with malformed strings in rich text e-mail. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs;...
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