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MS Office and IE Exploits

Posted by pudge on from the um-damn dept.

buzban writes "Microsoft has issued this security bulletin regarding potential buffer/code exploits. It seems to have a potential effect on a lot of things, including Office v.X, Office:2001, IE for Mac OS and for Mac OS X, AppleScript, et al... I couldn't get the update from Apple just yet, but that might be my own screwup. ;)" Only the patch for MSIE on Mac OS X is in Software Update through Apple. All others must be downloaded from Microsoft. Update: 04/17 21:02 GMT by P : pumpkinhead writes in that ZDNet has a story with more details.

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  1. Re:Mac OS X mitigates security hole impact by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Surely when you get asked to enter your root password (as you always do whenever you install new software) the attacker could jump to root. Guess the small amount of effort to trick/follow the user is more than any attacker would bother to do.

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