No Patch For Excel Zero-Day Flaw

CWmike writes "Microsoft said today that it will deliver three security updates on Tuesday, one of them marked 'critical,' but will not fix an Excel flaw that attackers are now exploiting. 'It doesn't look like we're going to see patches for any open Microsoft security advisories,' said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security, pointing to three that have not yet been closed. Those include two advisories issued last year — one from April 2008, another from December — and the Excel alert published last week. 'I'm not really surprised that the Excel vulnerability won't be patched, what with the timeline,' said Storms, 'but the others have been open for a long time.'"

Comments

HAHAHAHHA

[Culture20]

I would be laughing if I didn't have to support MS Office users occasionally. Did they really have to announce that they weren't going to patch excel?

Re:The problem with excel: being mission critical

[Slumdog]

Yeah. Decision makers at banks have proved themselves to really intelligent lately, huh?

did I say they were intelligent?

Re:quickly bash them...

[larry bagina]

Too late