MS15-081: Description of the security update for Word 2013: August 11, 2015

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-081.

Note To apply this security update, you must have the release version of Service Pack 1 for Office 2013 installed on the computer.

For a complete list of affected versions of Microsoft Office software, see KB3080790 .

Improvements and fixes

This update also contains fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:

• Buttons such as the Mark Areas to Keep, Mark Areas to Remove, and Delete Mark are not displayed on the BACKGROUND REMOVAL ribbon in Touch mode in Word 2013.
  
• When you apply paragraph numbering to a paragraph that is written in Hebrew characters, the paragraph number may be displayed in an incorrect font.
  
• When you use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or object model (OM) solutions, or you use the legacy print dialog to print the current page in Word 2013, the first page is printed.
  
• If a bindingDataChanged event is registered on a binding, when you add or change content of the binding's content control and then switch the focus to the task pane, the event is not triggered as expected.
  
• When you search for a word in the header or footer in the thumbnail view of a document in Word 2013, potential flashing occurs in the navigation pane.
  
• A document does not display all pages if there is a comment that contains the date and time in Word 2013.
  
• When you press the F9 key repeatedly to update a nested field (an IF field that has a condition for a Caps switch) in Word 2013, the result of the field calculation is displayed to toggle between the condition in which all letters are capitalized and the condition in which the first letter is a capital.