Microsoft warned today that an unpatched vulnerability in Office could be used by attackers to gain control of a Windows machine.
The affected software includes Word 2000, 2002, and 2003 (Including the Word Viewers), also included in this vulnerability is Microsoft Works 2004, 2005, and 2006. Surprisingly the vulnerability also includes the Mac version of Office 2004.
There are no pre-patch workarounds available. Yep. Thats right . Right now there is nothing you can do about the problem. No patches have been released by MS yet, and Microsoft is suggesting that users to not open or save word documents given to them from unknown sources.
Microsoft has said that users who download and use the Office Document Open Confirmation Tool for Office will be prompted with an Open, Save or cancel before a file is opened.
Hopefully they have it resolved by next patch Tuesday.