Vulnerability in Word

A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. It's known to affect Word 2002 SP3 and is not believed to affect other versions. No patch has been released. Microsoft suggests viewing Word documents using their Viewer software instead.

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Published on Thursday, July 10 2008 at 10:09 AM by Steve Werby in the Information Security blog.

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