{"id":2502,"date":"2017-03-23T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2017-03-21T22:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T21:00:04","slug":"security-update-kb-3178690-crashed-excel-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/03\/23\/security-update-kb-3178690-crashed-excel-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Update KB 3178690 crashes Excel 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Office1.jpg\" width=\"55\" align=\"left\" height=\"60\">Microsoft has released Security update <a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=842278\" target=\"_blank\">MS17-014<\/a> (Security Update for Microsoft Office (4013241)) on March 14, 2017. But it seems that this update is triggering crashes in Excel 2010.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Security update <a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=842278\" target=\"_blank\">MS17-014<\/a> 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. The security update addresses the vulnerabilities by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Correcting how Office handles objects in memory\n<li>Changing the way certain functions handle objects in memory\n<li>Properly initializing the affected variable\n<li>Helping to ensure that SharePoint Server properly sanitizes web requests\n<li>Correcting how the Lync for Mac 2011 client validates certificates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Security Update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/3178690\/ms17-014-description-of-the-security-update-for-excel-2010-march-14-20\" target=\"_blank\">KB3178690<\/a> has some side effects. Microsoft has added recently the following known issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After you install this security update, Excel 2010 may crash or hang (stop responding or freeze) when calculations are performed in a workbook. The calculations may be triggered either by code or by user interaction.<br \/>Microsoft is researching this problem and will post more information in this article when the information becomes available.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also askwoody.com has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askwoody.com\/2017\/excel-security-patch-ms17-014-for-excel-2010-kb-3178690-triggering-crashes\/\" target=\"_blank\">compiled a list<\/a> of forum entries mentions issues with Update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/3178690\/ms17-014-description-of-the-security-update-for-excel-2010-march-14-20\" target=\"_blank\">KB3178690<\/a> on machines.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar articles:<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/03\/15\/patchday-summary-march-2017\/\">Patchday summary March 2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released Security update MS17-014 (Security Update for Microsoft Office (4013241)) on March 14, 2017. But it seems that this update is triggering crashes in Excel 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,11,580,22],"tags":[709,47,710,69,195],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-office","category-security","category-update","tag-excel-2010","tag-issue","tag-kb3178690","tag-security","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}