bugtraq - Another, different MS Word 0-day vulnerability reported

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Message-ID: <7590579.1452001165787882309.JavaMail.juha-matti.laurio@netti.fi>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:58:01 +0200 (EET)
From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio@...ti.fi>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Another, different MS Word 0-day vulnerability reported

New vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been reported.
More details available at SANS Internet Storm Center Diary:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1925

Microsoft has confirmed that it is a different vulnerability than this issue reported earlier this week:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/incident_response.mspx

Link to MSRC entry:
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/10/new-report-of-a-word-zero-day.aspx

Word 2002, Word 2003 and Word Viewer 2003 are reportedly affected.
Word 2002 is reportedly immune.

Vulnerability is being exploited too (i.e. typical targeted attacks).

- Juha-Matti