MS08-072 / MS08-074: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957173 / 959070) (Mac OS X)

The remote Mac OS X host is running a version of Microsoft Office that is affected by several vulnerabilities. If an attacker can trick a user on the affected host into opening a specially crafted Excel or Word file, these issues could be leveraged to execute arbitrary code subject to the user's...

Microsoft Word RTF Object Parsing Remote Code Execution (MS08-072; CVE-2008-4027)

Microsoft Word is a popular word processing software. A remote code execution vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Word. The vulnerability is due to a memory calculation error in Microsoft Word that fails to properly handle specially crafted control words in Rich Text Format .rtf files....