OFF2000: Office 2000 ODBC Driver Vulnerability Security Update

• Microsoft Office 2000

SUMMARY

In the course of producing the solution to the Excel 97 "ODBC Driver" Vulnerability, Microsoft testing became aware of a separate vulnerability in the ODBC database driver that may affect Excel 2000 users. This vulnerability is related to the IISAM component of the ODBC database driver and could be exploited using an Excel 2000 query to perform malicious acts similar to those described in Excel 97 "ODBC Driver" Vulnerability. Microsoft has produced a solution to this specific vulnerability and incorporated it into the Excel 2000 ODBC Driver Vulnerability Security Update.

This article describes how to download and install this update.

NOTE: Microsoft released an updated version of the Office 97 ODBC Driver Vulnerability Security Update on October 11, 1999. The new update fixes an additional variant of the Text ISAM vulnerability.

For additional information about the Office 97 ODBC Driver Vulnerability, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q238445 OFF97: Office 97 ODBC Driver Vulnerability Security Update

MORE INFORMATION

To download and install this update, follow these steps:

NOTE: Microsoft recommends that all Office 2000 and Excel 2000 users update their systems with this security update. For corporate users, we recommend that you first contact your system administrators before applying any updates or patches.

1. Point your Web browser to the following Web site:




http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/excel2000odbc.htm

2. Click Download Now!. Click Save this program to disk and then click OK.



3. Click Save.



4. In Windows Explorer, double-click the JetCopkg.exe file.



5. Click Yes when you are asked whether or not to install this update.



6. Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.



7. Click OK when you see the message that indicates that the installation was successful.

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/confirm.htm

REFERENCES

For additional information about this problem, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q239482 ACC2000: Jet 4.0 Expression Can Execute Unsafe Visual Basic for Application Functions

Q239471 Jet 4.0 Text IISAM Allows Users to Append Lines to System Files

Additional query words: OFF2000

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto