Home / bulletins MS07-013: Vulnerability in Microsoft RichEdit Could Allow Remote Code Execution (918118) - Version:1.2
Posted on 27 June 2007
Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: Bulletin updated: Prerequisites and Additional Update for Office 2003 in the Security Update Information section. Summary: This update addresses a newly discovered, privately reported vulnerability. 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 at the earliest opportunity.
