National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center 8, said that the recent emergence of Microsoft PowerPoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (Microsoft Security Warning vulnerability described in 925984), the flaw affects Microsoft's electronic document presentation tool Microsoft PowerPoint2000 and above.
According to experts, Microsoft PowerPoint is a very popular electronic document presentation tools.PowerPoint contains a malformed string in dealing with the PPT file, there are loopholes that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.
According to introduction, there have been to exploit the vulnerability of the Trojans, the Trojan disguised as PPT format, will be released after the execution backdoors and other unwanted files.Although it now appears a serious impact has not yet formed, but Microsoft has not provided a patch for the vulnerability, or the upgrade process, do not rule out the use of vulnerability is the possibility of other malicious programs.
National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center to alert the user browsing the Internet and receiving e-mail Do not open untrusted PPT documents, and to keep attention to manufacturers home page (www.microsoft.com/technet/security/), to obtain the patch or theThe latest version of the software.