Microsoft rolled out minor updates to the 2004 and 2008 editions of its Office suite of productivity tools on Tuesday that patch a security vulnerability in the Excel spreadsheet application.
According to a Microsoft security bulletin, seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Excel could allow remote code execution if a user were to open a specially-crafted file. By exploiting those vulnerabilities, an attacker could gain the same user rights as a local user.
Those vulnerabilities are addressed with Tuesday’s dual release of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.4 Update and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.8 Update. Both updates include fixes for what Microsoft describes as “vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.”
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/146983/
According to a Microsoft security bulletin, seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Excel could allow remote code execution if a user were to open a specially-crafted file. By exploiting those vulnerabilities, an attacker could gain the same user rights as a local user.
Those vulnerabilities are addressed with Tuesday’s dual release of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.4 Update and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.8 Update. Both updates include fixes for what Microsoft describes as “vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.”
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/146983/