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Microsoft Office 2003 Apps Hit with New Crash Bugs
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 00:06, 28th February 2007 GMT
Source: PC World
Microsoft Office apps can be crashed by attackers who feed the business applications malformed documents, Symantec reports. Microsoft Corp.'s Word 2003 and Excel 2003 can be crashed by attackers who feed the business applications malformed documents, Symantec Corp. reported Monday.
In separate alerts sent to subscribers of its DeepSight threat system, Symantec warned that the bugs -- both discovered and disclosed by a Russian researcher with the moniker "sehato" -- could be exploited by attackers to bring down the Office applications.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to an e-mail request for confirmation and comment. "A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by presenting a malicious WMF file to a victim user," said Symantec's report on the Office 2003 flaw. "The issue is triggered when the application is used to insert the malicious file into a document."
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