Home / bulletins MS09-030 - Important: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Publisher Could Allow Remote Code Execution (969516) - Version:1.1
Posted on 01 August 2009
ImportantSeverity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (July 15, 2009): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 969693 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary. Added information about additional security features included in this update to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Related to This Security Update section. Corrected the update filename for Office Publisher 2007 (publisher2007-kb969693-fullfile-x86-glb) in the Security Update Deployment section. These are informational changes only. There were no changes made to the security update files in this bulletin.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office Publisher that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Publisher file. 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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- MS09-030 - Version: 1.1
- MS09-030 - Version: 1.1
