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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Vulnerability in Microsoft Office

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Office handles a specially crafted drawing object. This update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability is documented in its own subsection in the Vulnerability Details section of this bulletin.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.When using vulnerable versions of Office, if a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with the same user rights as the logged-on user. 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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