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Excel zero day in the wild

Subject: Excel zero day in the wild
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:26:37 -0600 (MDT)

There has been a report of a targeted attack leveraging a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Excel. The vulnerability is triggered when a user opens a malicious xls file. Further information regarding this incident is available from the following sources.


Microsoft Excel Unspecified Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18422

Trojan.Mdropper.J
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.mdropper.j.html

Downloader.Booli.A
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/downloader.booli.a.html

Reports of a new vulnerability in Microsoft Excel
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/06/16/436174.aspx

-Josh


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