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Microsoft Office Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Office is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. This issue occurs when the application processes certain Office files.

Note that this issue may not be exploited automatically through email. For an attack to succeed, a victim must manually open an attachment sent by email or obtained through other means.

An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user.

This issue affects the Microsoft Office 2003 Brazilian Grammar Checker application used in various Microsoft applications that have Brazilian Portuguese language support.