Patch Available for "Malformed Conversion Data" Vulnerability

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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
           ESB-2000.014 -- Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-002)
        Patch Available for "Malformed Conversion Data" Vulnerability
                               21 January 2000

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Microsoft Corporation has released the following security bulletin 
concerning a vulnerability in a utility which converts Japanese, Korean and  
Chinese Microsoft Word 5 documents to more-recent formats.  A
specially-crafted Word document may be used to execute arbitrary code on 
a machine if opened with an affected version of the utility:

       http://www.microsoft.com/Security/Bulletins/ms00-002.asp


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If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Microsoft Corporation directly.

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