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17-Year-Old MS Office Flaw Lets Hackers Install Malware Without User Interaction

Vulnerability resides in EQNEDT32.EXE, an MS Office component which is responsible for insertion and editing of equations (OLE objects) in documents. Due to improper memory operations, the component fails to properly handle objects in the memory, corrupting it in such a way that the attacker could execute malicious code in the context of the logged-in user. The vulnerability is a memory-corruption issue that resides in all versions of Microsoft Office released in the past 17 years, including Microsoft Office 365.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/11/microsoft-office-rce-exploit.html

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