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Microsoft Office XP/Internet Explorer OWC File Creation Vulnerability

A reliable source has announced a vulnerability affecting users of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office XP.

The vulnerability is related to Office Web Components (OWC), a set of plugins for MSIE that have been taken off of Microsoft's website for security reasons.

It is possible to abuse OWC in combination with a malicious .xls or .xla file to cause an almost arbitrary file to be written to a client system. This issue affects systems that still have OWC installed and may be exploited from a malicious webpage.

This issue is a variation of the problem described in Bugtraq ID 4398.