Security Update for Microsoft Office

Description

These vulnerabilites have following impacts: Remote Code Execution. An attacker who successfully exploited Remote Code Execution vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of an affected system with full user rights.

Analysis

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

Affected Applications

Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft Office 2013
Microsoft Office 2016

CVE References

CVE-2016-7233 CVE-2016-7213 CVE-2016-7228 CVE-2016-7229 CVE-2016-7230 CVE-2016-7231 CVE-2016-7232 CVE-2016-7234 CVE-2016-7235 CVE-2016-7236 CVE-2016-7245 CVE-2016-7244

Other References

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms16-133