This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces a user to open or preview a specially crafted Microsoft Word file in an affected version of Office. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-033.
Note To apply this security update, you must have Service Pack 2 for Office 2010 installed on the computer.
To resolve the vulnerabilities, you have to apply the following updates:
Note To apply this security update, you must have Service Pack 2 for Office 2010 installed on the computer.
To resolve the vulnerabilities, you have to apply the following updates:
- 2965236 MS15-033: Description of the security update for Office 2010: April 14, 2015
- 2553428 MS15-033: Description of the security update for Word 2010: April 14, 2015
Improvements and fixes
This update also contains fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:- When you move an image to an unprotected section of a Word 2010 document that contains a protected section, Word 2010 may crash.
- Files that have an underscore (_) as a prefix in a directory are deleted incorrectly. This issue occurs after you create a Word 2010 document in a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) folder share and the document is based on a template whose name contains a number sign (#).
