From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2007 - 02:47:05 CST

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TITLE:
Microsoft Word Unspecified Code Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23950

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23950/

CRITICAL:
Extremely critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office 2000
http://secunia.com/product/24/
Microsoft Word 2000
http://secunia.com/product/2149/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Word, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when parsing
Word documents and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the
user's system.

NOTE: The vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

The vulnerability is reported in Microsoft Word 2000. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted Office documents.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered as a 0-day.

OTHER REFERENCES:
Symantec:
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-011813-0435-99&tabid=1

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