Vulnerability Spotlight: Two code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel

Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered two code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft released updates for these two bugs as part of their Patch Tuesday security update this week. Both vulnerabilities specifically relate to the component in Excel that handles the Microsoft Office HTML and XML file types. An adversary could exploit these vulnerabilities in such a way that would...

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