Home / bulletins MS05-026: Vulnerability in HTML Help Could Allow Remote Code Execution (896358) - Version:1.2
Posted on 27 June 2007
Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: Bulletin supersedence table in the FAQ section revised to include MS02-055.Summary: This update resolves a newly-discovered, privately-reported vulnerability. A vulnerability exists in HTML Help that could allow remote code execution on an affected system. The vulnerability is documented in the “Vulnerability Details†section of this bulletin. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. We recommend that customers apply the update immediately.
