MS08-014: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel could allow remote code execution

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS08-014. This security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update. This includes file manifest information and deployment options. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites:

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  http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200803.mspx
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  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-014.mspx

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More information about this security update
For more information about this security update and for information about any known issues with specific releases of this software, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Known issues with this security update

• After you install security update MS08-014 on a computer that has Microsoft Office Excel 2003 installed, array-entered functions that contain a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro that refers to a Real Time Data source return an incorrect value. The incorrect value is usually 0.
  
  Microsoft has completed research regarding this issue and has rereleased MS08-014 for users of Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft Knowledge Base article 943985). Automatic Updates will correctly offer this update to users of Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office Excel Service Pack 3, whether or not they have applied the original version of security update MS08-014. For more information about this issue and about how to determine which version of the update you have installed, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  950340 After you install security update 943985, Excel 2003 calculations return an incorrect result when a Real Time Data source is used in a user-defined Visual Basic for Applications function