Microsoft to address critical vulnerability in Office Web Components

Microsoft will issue five critical security bulletins in its August Patch Tuesday release next week, including one that affects Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft ISA Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server, and another for both Windows and the Windows Client for Mac.

In its advance noticeissued Thursday, Microsoft said that the critical bulletin affecting Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft ISA Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Web Components, first raised in security advisory 973472. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. When using Internet Explorer, remote code execution is possible and may not require any user intervention.

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