Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-031

Cumulative Patches for Excel and Word for Windows (Q324458)

Date: 19 June 2002

Software: Microsoft Office for Windows

Impact: Run Code of Attacker's Choice

Max Risk: Moderate

Bulletin: MS02-031

Microsoft encourages customers to review the Security Bulletin at: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-031.asp.

Affected Software:

Microsoft Excel 2000 for Windows

Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows

Microsoft Excel 2002 for Windows

Microsoft Word 2002 for Windows

Microsoft Office XP for Windows

This is a set of cumulative patches that, when applied, applies all previously released fixes for these products.

In addition, these patches eliminate four newly discovered vulnerabilities all of which could enable an attacker to run Macro code on a user's machine.

Read more: MS02-031