Heads up folks there is a new Microsoft vulnerability just released.
Microsoft is investigating a new report of limited “zero-day” attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac, as well as Microsoft Works 2004, 2005, and 2006.In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must first open a malicious Word file attached to an e-mail or otherwise provided to them by an attacker.
The long and the short of it is not to accept Word files (or any for that matter) from untrusted sources.
Tags: Word Exploit, Zero Day, Remote Code Execution, Microsoft Word Vulnerability
