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Full Disclosure: Microsoft confirmed Word 0-day vulnerability

Microsoft confirmed Word 0-day vulnerability

From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio_at_netti.fi>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 23:56:06 +0300 (EEST)

This zero-day vulnerability and related attacks has been confirmed by Microsoft today. This issue affects to Word version 2000.
It is also reported that Word Viewer application is not affected.

As a workaround it is possible to avoid opening Word files from unrusted sources, including e-mail, Web pages, IMs etc.
It is reported that these malicious Word files has been hosted on Web sites too.

- Juha-Matti

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