How Just Opening A Malicious PowerPoint File Could Compromise Your PC (The Hackers News)

2017-08-14 11:45

A few months back we reported how opening a simple MS Word file could compromise your computer using a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2017-0199) resided in the Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) interface for which a patch was issued in April this year, but threat actors are still abusing the flaw through the

News URL

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~3/TJZU1c9OQn8/powerpoint-malware-ms-office.html

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Related Vulnerability

DATE	CVE	VULNERABILITY TITLE	RISK
2017-04-12	CVE-2017-0199	Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office OLE Feature Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Microsoft Office 2013 SP1, Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, aka "Microsoft Office/WordPad Remote Code Execution Vulnerability w/Windows API." network microsoft critical	9.3