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Peter Winter-Smith has reported a vulnerability in various Microsoft Office products, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the WordPerfect Converter and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow if a user opens a malicious document.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with the users privileges.

The vulnerability affects WordPerfect Converter 5.x, which is included in various Microsoft Office products.

Solution
Microsoft has released updates.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Peter Winter-Smith, Next Generation Security Software.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
MS04-027 (KB884933):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-027.mspx

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