[WinPartners] Microsoft Office security advisory

[Brian McAllister]

 --Microsoft Warns of Attacks That Use PowerPoint Documents   
(October 22, 2014)
Microsoft has issued an advisory warning of attacks that use maliciously
crafted PowerPoint documents to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in
all currently supported versions of Windows except for Windows Server
2003. Although the attacks that have been detected thus far are using
PowerPoint documents to exploit the flaw, it could potentially be
exploited using any Office document.
More details available here:
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Microsoft+MSRT+October+Update/18853/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/22/powerpoint_attacks_exploit_ms_0day/

Microsoft bulletin:
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/3010060

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Brian McAllister                                   Senior Software Engineer
mcallister at mit.edu                                                Bates Lab
(617) 253-9537                                                Middleton, MA