Microsoft has issues a statement saying they will issue a "critical" patch this coming Tuesday to fix a flaw in Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The single update is oddly timed, after Microsoft released eight patches to fix 23 vulnerabilities only days ago. Critical patches are the highest rating Microsoft gives to updates, issuing an urgent warning to install the needed fix.The outstanding patch has been sitting idly by for almost a month until questions were raised on why it was missed during the latest patches. The vulnerability was reported almost a month ago, back on April 2, in Microsoft's Office PowerPoint can be triggered using rigged presentation files.
The following versions of Microsoft Office PowerPoint versions will require patching:
- PowerPoint 2000
- PowerPoint 2002
- PowerPoint 2003
- PowerPoint 2007
What does that mean?
"Previously, Microsoft had admitted that the bug was in an older PowerPoint file format. The inclusion of PowerPoint 2007, Storms speculated, means that the new version may be affected when it tries to convert from an older format to the Office 2007 native format."
+1 I was thinking is this 'out of band'? Sure enough, patch tuesday is here again (second tuesday).
Yes, they has. 0_o
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