Microsoft has released updates for its Office suite for Mac, with an update for Office 2004 and another for Office 2008. Both updates contain bug fixes, and include “fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of a computer’s memory by using malicious code.”
However, it turns out that users who have installed Apple’s 2008-005 security update (released on July 31) may be having problems updating Office 2008. It seems that this security update “blocks an AppleScript from displaying a dialog to quit all running Microsoft applications in the current Microsoft Office 2008 updaters.” This post on the Entourage Help Blog explains the problem and the workaround: quit all Office applications before running the updater.
