[pchelpers] News:Third unpatched vuln menaces Word

No end to the madness in sight
By John Leyden
Published Friday 15th December 2006 16:04 GMT

Hackers have released an exploit targeting a third unpatched
vulnerability in Microsoft Word. The flaw is different from the two
previous Word vulnerabilities reported earlier this month, US CERT
helpfully explains.

This time around we're dealing with a memory corruption flaw that might
be exploited providing users are tricked into opening a malformed Word
document to either crash - or load malware onto - vulnerable PCs running
Word. Attack code was available at Milw0rm.com, so the potential for
mischief is high.

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/word_flaw_three/


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