Tag: cve-2012-0158

  • Is CVE-2017-0199 the new CVE-2012-0158?

    There are two good reasons not to be concerned about CVE-2012-0158 , an RTF handling vulnerability in Microsoft Office . First, the vulnerability was patched more than five years ago, so if you follow good security practices and patch regularly, you won’t have to worry about it. Secondly, if you are following those good security practices,…

  • Is CVE-2017-0199 the new CVE-2012-0158?

    There are two good reasons not to be concerned about CVE-2012-0158 , an RTF handling vulnerability in Microsoft Office . First, the vulnerability was patched more than five years ago, so if you follow good security practices and patch regularly, you won’t have to worry about it. Secondly, if you are following those good security practices,…

  • CVE-2012-0158 continues to be used in targeted attacks

    30-month old vulnerability still a popular way to infect systems. If all you have to worry about are zero-day vulnerabilities, you have got things pretty well sorted. Although it is true that sometimes zero-days are being used to deliver malware (such as the recent use of CVE-2014-4114 by the SandWorm group), in many cases even…