Microsoft Office 2007 and Netgear - The BugBlog Report 11/27/06
Published November 27, 2006
Here are some of the most significant bugs from the past week in the BugBlog:
If you try to drag a slide from a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentation into a Word 2007 document, the slide won't get copied and you will get an error message: Word has encountered a problem If you try to drage it to a Publisher 2007 publication, the slide won't get copied either, and you won't get an error message. Microsoft has a couple of workarounds for this. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925423 for the details.
The Month of Kernel Bugs website reports on a buffer overflow bug in the driver for the NetGear WG311v1 wireless adapter. If an attacker sends a long SSID (Service Set Identifier), they may be able to take advantage of the overflow to run hostile code on your computer. You can see the detailed original report at
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-22-11-2006.html. There is no fix yet.
You can construct Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentations that contain hyperlinks that can take you to various parts of your presentation, such as the first slide, next slide, or last slide. If you save the presentation as a PowerPoint 97-2003 file (to share with some unenlightened soul who hasn't upgraded), these hyperlinks may not work. There is no fix or workaround yet.
- Microsoft Office 2007 and Netgear - The BugBlog Report 11/27/06
- Published: November 27, 2006
- Type: News
- Section: Sci/Tech
- Filed Under: Sci/Tech: Computers, Sci/Tech: Internet, Sci/Tech: Software
- Writer: Bruce Kratofil
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