On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:05:22 EDT, "Richard M. Smith" said:
> These 3 Word bugs are interesting, but I suspect they are not exploitable in
> an Outlook email message because an email message is HTML text and not a
> Word .DOC file.  To find security problems in Word that can be exploited
> from an Outlook email message instead requires fuzzing HTML.

Not True.

There's been *plenty* of evidence that "open attached file for details"
is a highly successful way of deploying malware.  If they'll go to the
effort of saving an encrypted .zip file, then opening it with the provided
password, they'll open a .doc file.

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