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[News] Microsoft Office Under Attack Again, Including Office 2007

Office zero-day bugs spoil Patch Tuesday

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| A trio of what appear to be new, yet-to-be-patched flaws in Microsoft 
| Office has surfaced, according to security researchers at McAfee.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The initial investigation has found that none of these zero-day
| claims demonstrates any vulnerability in the products of Office
| 2007, the latest version of Office, the representative said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6175011.html

Another case of proprietary software being insecure despite 'obscurity' (as
in 'closed source', not prevalance):

Oracle patches to fix 37 flaws

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| Oracle's "Critical Patch Update" is planned to include 13 fixes for 
| Oracle database products, five for Application Server, 11 for
| E-Business Suite, and four for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards
| products, according to Oracle's note.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6175041.html


Related:

Flaw found in Office 2007

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| Researchers have discovered a "highly critical" security flaw in
| newly released Office 2007, despite Microsoft's efforts to deliver
| its most secure version yet of the productivity software.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6161835.html

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