RE: More Office XP problems

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Kevin Brown kevin@kbrownfox.net wrote:

> RTF is a benign file format and does not support scripting or embedded
> HTML tags.

It does macros, and may cause exploitable buffer overflows in viewers.
You must have the MS security patches

  RTF document linked to template can run macros without warning:
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-028.asp 

  Malformed RTF Control Word:
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-005.asp 

installed.

Cheers,

Paul Szabo - psz@maths.usyd.edu.au  http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics  University of Sydney   2006  Australia

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