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Excel Vulnerability with Wild Threats
There is a critical vulnerabilyt in Microsoft Excel 2003, XP, and Excel for Mac. Since Microsoft Office documents can contain embedded Excel objects, a Word doc or PowerPoint file can be used to compromise a system as well. According to Symantec, there are threats that exist and do exploit this problem. Currently files named “okN.xls” contain Mdropper.J and Booli.A. The names and contained trojans can change at anytime. Currently it is unkown if Microsoft will release a patch for Excel before July 11th. In previous cases, Microsoft has not released a patch, and it is speculated that the attackers are trying to take advanged of past actions.
For more, see US-CERT TA06-167A.
Last Updated On June 19, 2006
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