Microsoft Security Advisory: Use Safe Mode for Word Code Execution Risk

Use Microsoft Word in safe mode to protect against targeted zero-day attacks. That's the advice from Microsoft's security response team to counter known attacks against a serious code execution vulnerability in the widely used word processing program.

In a pre-patch security advisory, Microsoft said the flaw can be exploited when a user opens a specially crafted Word file using a malformed object pointer. This corrupts system memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code.

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