Security & Privacy + Software & Apps

Microsoft today issued security updates for Office 2004 for Mac, and for Virtual PC 6.1 and 7, for Mac. The Office update resolves the following:

“This critical security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted Web page. The vulnerability could be exploited through attacks on Object Linking and Embedding (OLE).”

And this too:

“This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in addition to other security issues identified during the course of the investigation. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file.”

(More information on Microsoft’s web site, here and here.)

And the Virtual PC update fixes this:

“This important security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability. This is an elevation of privilege vulnerability. The vulnerability in Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server could allow a guest operating system user to run code on the host or another guest operating systems.”

(More information on this page.)

You can download updaters for both these issues on this web page.

Keep safe!