Microsoft protects against 3 vulnerabilities
InternetNews | at | by Mike
At Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday, security officials announced they fixed three critical vulnerabilities.
The vulnerabilities open the door for remote code execution by malware writers, allowing them to completely take over the user's machine. Once accomplished they would have full administrative rights to view, change or delete data on the hard drive.
The first is a critical font-parsing vulnerability in Microsoft Word affecting Microsoft 2000/XP and Microsoft Works 2000/2001/2002/2003/2004 users. The vulnerability can be exploited if a user opens a specially crafted Word document, which would install a malicious program onto the computer.