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The newest Word flaw is due to malformed data structure handling



Related to the newest MS Word 0-day
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/10/new-report-of-a-word-zero-day.aspx

US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#166700 released today lists the following new 
technical detail:

"Microsoft Word fails to properly handle malformed data structures allowing memory 
corruption to occur."
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/166700

- Juha-Matti