Microsoft KB Archive/887979

= Description of the security update for Word 2003: April 12, 2005 =

Article ID: 887979

Article Last Modified on 3/28/2006

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 * Microsoft Office Word 2003

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Microsoft has released security bulletin MS05-023. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update. This includes the file manifest information and the deployment options. To view the security bulletin, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:  Home users:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/bulletins/default.mspx

 IT professionals:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-023.mspx



This security update was first included in Office 2003 Service Pack 2. For more information about the latest service pack for Office 2003, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

870924 How to obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003



Known issues that may occur during the installation of the security update
 Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Indonesian versions of Microsoft Office 2003 cannot be updated by using the client update for this release. These versions of Office 2003 can be updated only by using the full-file update. Text boxes become smaller or move toward the edge of the page after you resize the document window in Reading Layout view in Word 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

899766 Text boxes become smaller or move toward the edge of the page after you resize the document window in Reading Layout view in Word 2003



Issues that the security update fixes
Besides the issues that are described in the security bulletin, the security update for Word 2003 (KB887979) addresses the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:  

838899 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: August 20, 2004

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883946 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: September 3, 2004

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885255 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: September 9, 2004

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885929 Description of the Excel 2003 and Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: September 9, 2004

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885831 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: September 17, 2004

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885880 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: September 27, 2004

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886791 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: October 1, 2004

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887824 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: October 18, 2004

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888242 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: November 1, 2004

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889078 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: November 12, 2004

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890213 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: November 18, 2004

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890471 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: November 29, 2004

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890932 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: December 14, 2004

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891437 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: December 18, 2004

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892399 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 19, 2005

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892555 Description of the Microsoft Office Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 22, 2005

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893219 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 31, 2005

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893604 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 7, 2005

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894262 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 14, 2005

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895247 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 7, 2005

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895481 Description of the Microsoft Office Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 11, 2005

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896095 Description of the Microsoft Office Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 19, 2005

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896271 Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 28, 2005

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896610 Description of the Microsoft Office Word 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: April 4, 2005

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Error signature details
You may receive the following Office 2003 error message:

Microsoft product has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. To see what data this error report contains, click here.

When you view the data in the error report, the report contains an error signature that is similar to one of the following error signatures. These error signatures are fixed by this update.

Additional query words: Office Security Patch Performance Reliability Update Download 2003 Fix document Buffer overrun specially crafted

Keywords: kboffice2003sp2fix kbsecurity kbsecbulletin kbsecvulnerability atdownload kbfix kbupdate KB887979

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