Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of Word documents and can be exploited to corrupt memory when a user opens a specially crafted Office file.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
NOTE: According to Microsoft, this is currently being actively exploited.
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