Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution
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| Microsoft is investigating new public reports of very limited
| Microsoft Excel "zero-day" attacks using a vulnerability in
| Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office
| 2003, and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/932553.mspx
There are currently 4 unpatched zero-days in Word. Microsoft says the
recently-reported 5th one is a 'duplicate' or variant of another.
Related:
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
Another Word zero-day bug used in attacks
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| The newest problem allows an attacker to hijack systems running Word 2000
| and causes a crash of Word 2003 and Word XP, Symantec said in an alert
| Thursday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6153562.html
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