Microsoft Pulls Some Non-Security Updates For Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 and 2016 That It Released Earlier This Month (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:00AM from the deja-vu dept.

Mark Wilson, writing for BetaNews: Having released a series of updates for Office 2010, 2013 and 2016 as part of this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has now pulled two of them and advised sysadmins to uninstall the updates if they have already been installed. In both instances -- KB4461522 and KB2863821 -- Microsoft says that the problematic updates can lead to application crashes. While this is not as serious a problem as, say, data loss, it does little to quieten the fears that have been voiced about the quality control Microsoft has over its updates.

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Those updates also disabled macros in Word by dhuv · 2018-11-20 00:28 · Score: 3, Informative

Macros in Office are a big security issue. Once of those updates (I believe it was KB4461522) disabled macros even if the code was signed by Microsoft and is valid. Unfortunately we use this functionality at the moment and had to ask users to remove that update on affected systems.