MS Office Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
News of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft office are being investigated by McAfee and reported in Computer Security Research - McAfee Avert Labs Blog.
It appears that several vulnerabilities have been published; most can be used for denial of service attacks, at least one other is a heap-overflow that can use used for code execution.
Karthik Raman, posting on the Avert blog, noted
[Y]es: this is yet another time that zero-day flaws have been published around a Patch Tuesday, possibly to maximize the public’s exposure to these flaws until the next month’s Patch Tuesday.
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