Microsoft releases OOB security updates for Microsoft Office (RCE)

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Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update that fixes remote code execution vulnerabilities in an Autodesk FBX library integrated into Microsoft Office and Paint 3D applications.
Last month, Autodesk issued security updates for their Autodesk FBX Software Development Kit that resolves remote code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities caused by specially crafted FBX files.

An FBX file is an Autodesk file format that is used to store 3D models, assets, shapes, and animations.

To exploit these vulnerabilities, an attacker would create a malicious FBX file that would exploit "buffer overflow, type confusion, use-after-free, integer overflow, NULL pointer dereference, and heap overflow vulnerabilities" to perform a DoS attack or remotely execute code.
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