MS06-054: Vulnerability in Microsoft Publisher could allow remote code execution

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS06-054. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update. This information includes file manifest information and deployment options. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites, depending on whether you are a home user or an IT professional.

• Home users:
  http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200609.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200609.mspx)
• IT professionals:
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-054.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-054.mspx)

Service pack information

The problem that is addressed by this security update is now corrected in Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3). For more information about how to obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Known issues

Known issues that may occur after the security update is installed

• After the update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2003, Microsoft Publisher 2002, or Microsoft Publisher 2000 is installed, users can no longer open Microsoft Publisher 2.0 files. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  924685  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924685/ ) Error message when you try to open a Publisher 2.0 publication in Publisher 2003, Publisher 2002, or Publisher 2000: "Publisher cannot open this file"
• After you install this update, you cannot copy and paste content between separate instances of Publisher 2000. If you copy content from one instance of Publisher 2000 and then switch to a separate instance of Publisher 2000, the Paste command will be unavailable (dimmed) as if there is nothing on the clipboard.

For more information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: