When this flaw came about we were still freaking out about Y2K ending the world. Well, Y2K turned out to be about as bad as the new ice age in the 70’s. But unlike the new North American Ice Age, Global Warming, Polar Ice Cap Destruction, and Global Warming, Microsoft has actually fixed this 17 year old zero day exploit. Is it just me or do you also have a harder time squaring a 17 year old zero day exploit than 1970s Ice Age? Thanks Joe.



The flaw is related the memory-corruption issue CVE-2017-11882 that affects all versions of Microsoft Office released in the past 17 years, it resides in the Equation Editor functionality (EQNEDT32.EXE) and was addressed by Microsoft in November.

The analysis of the flaw CVE-2017-11882 allowed the researchers at 0Patch to discover the CVE-2018-0802 fixed in the January 2018 Patch Tuesday.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – 17 Year Old Zero Day Microsoft Office Flaw Fixed