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Microsoft word 2017 patcher12/25/2022 That's 17 years, which is a pretty respectable life span for software! We're therefore safe to claim that the vulnerable EQNEDT32.EXE has been with us since 2000. The "old" Equation Editor is an ancient component of Microsoft Office (Office now uses an integrated Equation Editor), which is confirmed by looking at the properties of the unpatched EQNEDT32.EXE: The recent Patch Tuesday brought, among other things, a new version of "old" Equation Editor, which introduced a fix for a buffer overflow issue reported by Embedi. All Internet-connected computers with a registered 0patch Agent running have already received this micropatch and have it automatically applied whenever Equation Editor is launched. In addition, we were now able to create a micropatch for Equation Editor that also blocks all exploits targeting the vulnerability found by Embedi. This article has been slightly corrected to reflect that. Contrary to this article's original claim that CVE-2017-11882 was patched in function 4164FA while six other buffer overflow checks we found were for some other attack vectors, it is actually one of those six checks that blocks Embedi's exploit. * Wrap each jpg file (e.g in a zip file) to defeat ISP recompression.Today Embedi published their proof-of-concept exploit, which allowed us to see where exactly Microsoft's manual patch blocks it. * Reduce strictness of file checks for jpg files. * Accept that sometimes when I want to use Zwift I won’t be able to until either (a) after I next come to work or (b) I get a friend to download the files manually and email them to me. * Find a way to turn off 4G broadband provider 's image recompression. In the meantime, if this is the problem then the solutions would appear to include the following. The immediate solution I am going to try out is to (a) download the image files that need updating at work and then (b) copy them into the Zwift folder at home. My suspicion is that my home (4G) broadband provider (vodafone uk) is recompressing image files and it is this which is making the checks fail. However, downloading the same file from the same url at work, results in an image file that does match at least the file size. All other file types appear to be updating properly.ĭownloading the relevant image files manually, outside of Zwift, also produces mismatching files. It’s downloading them but the file sizes and checksums don’t match. The update process is failing to update the (jpg) image files.
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