Last week, we alerted you to a possible security vulnerability that affected Microsoft Office on both Windows and OS X. While we never got too much in the way of details, updates for both affected Mac versions have been released today—sort of. While a pair of updates were available, MacFixIt reports that they’ve both been pulled. It’s not known at the moment whether this is intentional or not.
The description for the patches read:
This update contains several updates to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.We’ll keep our ear to the ground and let you know when the patchy goodness returns and hopefully why it was pulled in the first place.
Update: Microsoft has acknowledged that the updates were mistakenly posted: “The updates posted in error were pre-release binaries that had been staged internally as part of our testing for an upcoming release. Due to human error, they were accidentally published to the public websites before our full testing release process was complete.” Oh, those pesky humans.
[via Infinite Loop]
