Microsoft previews four critical bulletins for Office; Patches on deck

Microsoft said it plans to address four critical bulletins for vulnerabilities in Office on its upcoming patch day March 11.

In a security bulletin, Microsoft said Thursday there are four critical remote code execution flaws in Office, which is regularly under attack.

• The first bulletin is rated critical for Microsoft Office Excel 2000 and may address an Excel vulnerability discovered in January and left unpatched last month.
• The second bulletin addresses critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007. In other words, if you have Outlook you should pay attention.
• The third bulletin addresses remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office 2000 (SP3).
• And finally the fourth bulletin from Microsoft covers Web components for Office 2000.

For other flavors of Office and Excel Microsoft has called its bulletins important.