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Take extra care when opening MS Word documents arriving by email or found on web sites.
Microsoft has issued a new Security Advisory - number 929433 - warning that opening a 'specially crafted' Word document containing a 'malformed string' could give the document's author the same user rights that you have.
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Personally I'd be more concerned with the Acrobat 7 vulnerability which again could allow arbitary code excecution :)
http://www.adobe.com/support/securit...apsb06-20.html
Thanks for the heads-up!
However, unlike the MS vulnerability, this one, seemingly, does have a fix now.
I suspect this will be automatically implemented if you've got Acrobat 7 set to report auto updates.
Trouble is, Adobe updates seem to arrive at such regular intervals that I've slipped into the bad habit of ignoring them!
Those who don't have auto-update enabled, should, of course, dive over here and sort things out.
At first Adobe updates seemed to arrive at completely arbitrary intervals, but I soon realised that they were timed to annoy me at an exponential rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Crabtree
Some days... BAM "you need to update, and reboot... eight times, thanks!"
I exaggerate, but you get the picture.
Oh, and I use OO.org most of the time, so much for Word vulns :D