Possible third vulnerability in popular software exploited.
Reports are coming in of a new exploit for
Microsoft
‘s
Word
word processing software, amid speculation that the attack takes advantage of yet another vulnerability.
With the first two, one several weeks old and the other appearing last week, not covered by the recent
Patch Tuesday
release, many security watchers have argued that the latest issue should be enough to force
Microsoft
to break its patching cycle and release fixes.
Details of the latest vulnerability, as well as the previous ones, remain scant, but
eEye Digital Security
is carrying an alert on the latest possible exploit, with some further information,
here
.
Posted on 15 December 2006 by
Virus Bulletin
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