{"id":2641,"date":"2017-04-12T18:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:15:44","slug":"word-zero-day-vulnerability-patched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/04\/12\/word-zero-day-vulnerability-patched\/","title":{"rendered":"Word zero-day-vulnerability patched"},"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\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" align=\"left\" height=\"47\">There has been a zero-day-vulnerability reported in Word and WordPad that is used in the wild. Microsoft has issued a patch to close this vulnerability on April 2017 patch day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I've blogged about that in my article <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/04\/11\/warning-dridex-botnet-addresses-word-zero-day-vulnerability\/\">Warning: Dridex botnet addresses Word zero day vulnerability<\/a>. An analysis may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireeye.com\/blog\/threat-research\/2017\/04\/cve-2017-0199-hta-handler.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkpoint.com\/defense\/advisories\/public\/2017\/cpai-2017-0251.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Dridex botnet is using this vulnerability to infect million Windows systems.  <\/p>\n<p>On April 11, 2017 Microsoft released a couple of security updates, and also CVE-2017-0199 (Microsoft Office\/WordPad Remote Code Execution Vulnerability w\/Windows API) has been addressed. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft has deleted the original article dealing with CVE-2017-0199. But there is <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/de-de\/help\/4014793\/title\" target=\"_blank\">KB4014793<\/a> (Security update for the Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability: April 11, 2017) providing some information. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft offers patches for Office 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 and also for all supported Windows version (due to WordPad vulnerability). Details has been published within the removed Microsoft CVE-2017-0199 article (https:\/\/ portal.msrc.microsoft.com\/en-US\/security-guidance\/advisory\/CVE-2017-0199). As far as I understand, the patch just blocks the EPS import filter. Nevertheless install this update immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a zero-day-vulnerability reported in Word and WordPad that is used in the wild. Microsoft has issued a patch to close this vulnerability on April 2017 patch day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,580,2],"tags":[125,766,69,195,194,765],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office","category-security","category-windows","tag-office","tag-patch","tag-security","tag-update","tag-windows","tag-word-zero-day-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","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=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}