Microsoft delivers 11 patches, 6 critical; Excel flaw left unpatched
Microsoft delivered 11 patches on Tuesday addressing 17 vulnerabilities. Six updates fix critical flaws and five address important vulnerabilities, but an already exploited Excel zero day was left unpatched.
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12.2.2008 Excel vulnerable to new attack
With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software.
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5.2.2007 Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 £40 deal: one week left
Some of you have no doubt heard of this offer before, but many out there may not have--or they may have thought it was over. Well, it almost is.
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22.6.2009 Mac OS X and Linux Left Scrambling for Wow Crumbs in the Windows Vista Dust
Microsoft is celebrating a veritable Windows Vista feast, while Mac OS X and Linux are left scrambling for Wow crumbs.
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2.11.2007Olympic trojan beats Microsoft to Excel patch
Microsoft's decision to hold back an Excel patch from last month's Patch Tuesday may have left millions exposed as attackers target the un-patched
flaw in Excel.
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning that Excel file attachments are being used
to spread a trojan which allows a hacker to gain user rights to a PC.
The trojan is packed inside an Excel attachment and
exploits a flaw
discovered in multiple versions of Excel in January.
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11.03.2008Building the Excel Media Player Part 2
Joseph Chirilov:
Last post we talked about how to use Excel
as a flexible development environment and touched on the benefits of using Office graphics to build your UI. This post goes into how to use ActiveX
controls in Excel and how to contain and manipulate data in tables to drive your application.
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17.04.2008Symantec Finds Yet Another Excel Trojan Variant
It may be a single malicious
user with an axe to grind, and
that user may be targeting a
very small group of people who
just happen to use Microsoft
Excel. But whoever it is
continues to make security
firms like Symantec nervous,
as yet another Excel-based
document with a malformed
image string, dubbed
Trojan.Mdropper.Y , has
turned up...
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09.02.2007Excel Flaw in Asian Office
Versions
Researchers disclosed another
flaw within Excel on Thursday,
saying it could allow
attackers to take control of a
user's computer. The newest
vulnerability is the third
discovered in the popular
spreadsheet program in the
past month...
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07.07.2006Excel Focus of July Patch
Tuesday
Microsoft released a bevy of
critical updates Tuesday, with
a focus on the multitude of
Excel vulnerabilities that
have sprung up over recent
months. In total, seven
security bulletins were issued
for Windows and Office...
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12.07.2006Another Malformed String Exploit Plagues Excel
This morning, Microsoft
acknowledged the discovery of
a new and active exploit
involving Excel. Although the
company says the attacks it
has seen thus far appear
limited and targeted, its
repeating its warning to users
not to open spreadsheets sent
in e-mails from untrusted
users...
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05.02.2007Using Conditional Cell Formatting in Excel 2007
If you are working on a spreadsheet and want to be able to quickly see differences in numbers at a glance, you should use the new Conditional Cell
Formatting in Excel 2007. With this you can change the background of a cell based on the data in the cell, almost like an inline chart.
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19.08.2008Microsoft Fixes Flawed Excel Patches
Microsoft was forced to
re-issue a set of patches for
multiple flaws in Microsoft
Excel in order to solve a
problem in Chinese, Japanese,
and Korean editions. The
original MS07-002 was a
security bulletin released
January 9 that addressed five
Excel bugs, all considered
"critical" for Excel 2000
and "important" for later
editions. Version 2.0 of the
bulletin has been posted to
the Microsoft support site.
Only users of Excel 2000 need
to install the new patches if
they plan to open Excel files
created with any Chinese,
Japanese, or Korean version of
the spreadsheet.
" While the original
version of this security
update for Excel 2000 does
protect against all
vulnerabilities discussed in
the bulletin, it does not
correctly process the phonetic
information that is embedded
in files that are created by
using Excel in the Korean,
Chinese, or Japanese
executable mode ," said a
Microsoft spokesperson
Wednesday.
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19.01.2007Microsoft Patches Multiple
Excel Flaws
Microsoft rolled out two
patches for vulnerabilities as
part of its monthly Patch
Tuesday effort, fixing six
vulnerabilities in Microsoft
Office, and a less significant
but still dangerous flaw
within Windows. Primarily
affected by the problems is
Excel...
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15.03.2006Real-time 3D engine created in Excel
Gareth Halfacree: So, you've seen what the CryENGINE2 can do, and been left underwhelmed. You've checked out the latest incarnation of the Unreal
engine, and it's just not doing it for you. Perhaps you need real next-gen graphics technology via Excel.
Seriously.
In what I can only assume was a caffeine-fuelled burst of genius-stroke-madness, Peter Rakos of
Gamasutra has developed a kinda-sorta
3D engine using nothing but Microsoft's ubiquitous spreadsheet application.
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07.03.2008What can you do with Excel?
Larry Larsen:
Jeff
Sandquist has been sending me these links about the crazy things you can do with Excel besides... well, Excel stuff. This is certainly no
replacement for an Xbox 360, but count me impressed.
Excel Music Synthesizer - EMS allows you to use Excel as a full music
synthesizer. Just plot your notes on the staff in your spreadsheet, pick and instrument and hit play. The 92k Excel template comes with four songs;
Amazing Grace, Pachabel's Canon, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Star Spangled Banner.
Excel Pac-Man &
Space Invaders - Also
available for the Excel console system - Pac Man and a 192k version of Space Invaders.
ExcelGames.org - There is actually a domain that hosts a number of different Excel games including Battleship, Bejeweled,
Berulex, Blackjack, Breakout, BubbleCell, Connect 4, Golf Stats, Mastermind, Maze, Minesweeper, Numbers Game, Reversi, Rubix, Square Poker, Stones of
Power, Sudoku Solver, Tetris, TexTwisT, and Video Poker.
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03.11.2007Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 £40 deal: one week left
Some of you have no doubt heard of this offer before, but many out there may not have--or they may have thought it was over. Well, it almost is. UK
students who want to get their hands on a legit, full copy of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for less than £40 have until midnight (GMT) on 30
June 2009 to take advantage of Microsoft's long-running "Ultimate Steal" promotion. Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 contains Access, Excel,
Groove, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, Powerpoint, Publisher and Word. If you want to secure your copy, you should visit the "Ultimate Steal"
promotion site.
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22.06.2009Microsoft Fixes Excel Calculation Bug
Microsoft says it has fixed a much publicized Excel 2007 bug which caused the spreadsheet program to display erroneous calculation results. The Excel
team explained the issue this way: of the countless different floating point numbers Excel 2007 can store, there are six floating numbers using binary
representation that cause the problem. Apparently for calculations that amount to around 65,535, Excel 2007 would return a value of 100,000 instead of
65,535. Thus, for instance, if you multiplied 850 by 77.1, the program would display 100,000 instead of 65,535, but if you consequently multiplied the
result by 2, you would get 131,070, the correct answer. The issue, according to the Excel staff, was introduced when Microsofts development team made
changes to the Excel calculation logic in Office 2007.
However, all of that is now in the past: in an Oct. 9 posting on the Excel section
of MSDN
the Excel Team served notice that, " as of today, fixes for this issue in Excel 2007 and Excel Services
2007 are available for download. " The team has also added the fix to Microsoft Update, " so that it will get automatically pushed to
users running Excel 2007 or Excel Services 2008. " The fix will be included in the first service pack of Office 2007 when its released, though
that date has not yet been finalized.
neowin.net - 12.10.2007
Another Excel 2003 file format exploit discovered in the wild
A new and reportedly dangerous vulnerability has been discovered already through an exploit already in the wild, and this time it affects users of
Excel with the older file format...
betanews.com - 17.01.2008
Excel Calculation Issue Update (Fix Available)
Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today, fixes for this issue in Excel
2007 and Excel Services 2007 are available for download from the following locations:
- Excel 2007
- 64-bit Excel Services 2007
- 32-bit Excel Services 2007
KB Articles have been posted as well:
- Excel 2007
- Excel Services 2007
We are in the process of
adding this fix to Microsoft Update so that it will get automatically pushed to users running Excel 2007 or Excel Services 2007. Additionally, the
fix will also be contained in the first service pack of Office 2007 when it is released (the release date for SP1 of Office 2007 has not been
finalized).
Thank you for your patience,
The Excel Team
winbeta.org - 10.10.2007
Expand your file-protection options via Microsoft Office 2007's Trust Center
One of the most notable additions to Microsoft's 2007 Office System was the Trust Center, which centralizes the security options in Word, Excel,
Outlook, PowerPoint, and the other applications in the suite. Of course, this being Office, it figures that many of the most important security
features--including the new Document Inspector--also reside elsewhere.
To open the Trust Center in the 2007 versions of Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, click the Office button, select the Options button at the bottom-right of the window, choose Trust Center in the left
pane, and click the Trust Center Settings button in the right pane. In Outlook 2007 and Publisher 2007, click Tools > Trust Center.
winbeta.org - 27.02.2008
Security Update for Excel 2002 (KB923089)
A security vulnerability
exists in Microsoft Excel 2002
that could allow arbitrary
code to run when a maliciously
modified file is opened. This
update resolves that
vulnerability.
neowin.net - 07.12.2006
Microsoft Acknowledges Floating Point Bug in Excel 2007
It's the type of bug that, when discovered twenty years ago on the world's leading spreadsheets of the time, generated controversy and sent
thousands back to their software stores for refunds: Excel 2007 has a bug with the display of floating-point values, a Microsoft developer confirmed on his team's blog yesterday.
BetaNews confirmed the bug's existence, which leads to some values in floating-point multiplication to be "rounded" to incorrect values.
The problem appears to be with certain kinds of pairs of values whose product is either 216 (65,536) or 216 - 1
(65,535). When one or both factors has floating-point precision but is only slightly fractional - meaning, it has perhaps one or two decimal places
but is otherwise not "imaginary," to borrow its mathematical meaning - Excel renders the product as 100,000 instead.
winbeta.org - 26.09.2007
Add Word/Excel 97-2003 Documents Back to the "New" Context Menu
If you are using Office 2007 in an environment where everybody else is using Office 2003, you might have already set Excel or Word to always save to 2003 format, but
what about when you create new documents using the New menu? The only choices are now to create files in 2007 format, but we can add the old ones
back.
winbeta.org - 18.08.2008
Facebook Enhances Searching
So, as I went to go searching today - I noticed that Facebook had updated the way we search, adding a few new features
along the way. I was greeted with this lovely Facebook message at the top of the screen, and given a new layout to the search itself.
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