Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Office improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could use the information to compromise the user’s computer or data.

Detailed Information on the risk:
To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could craft a special document file and then convince the user to open it. An attacker must know the memory address location where the object was created.

Further information on this exploit is available at : CVE-2017-11934