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MS08-013 - Critical: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (947108) - Version:1.4

Posted on 21 January 2010

Critical

Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.4 (January 12, 2010): Bulletin updated: Corrected the bulletin replaced information for Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2.Summary: This critical security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file with a malformed object inserted into the document. 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.

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• MS08-013 - Version: 1.0
• MS08-013 - Version: 1.2
• MS08-013 - Version: 1.1
• MS08-013 - Version: 1.3
• MS08-013 - Version: 1.4
• MS08-013 - Version: 1.4

 

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