(TheForceField.Net ) March 15, 2008 — Microsoft notified users of its popular Excel spreadsheet program that a patch released Tuesday causes the application to return erroneous results in calculations.
In a message posted March 14 on The Microsoft Security Response Center site (MSRC) Bill Sisk, Microsoft Security Response Communication Manager, wrote "I wanted to let you know that we have updated bulletin MS08-014 to provide additional information on a newly identified issue that causes Microsoft Excel 2003 calculations to return an incorrect result when a Real Time Data source is used."
The patch was for Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-014, a vulnerability in Excel that allows remote code execution. The patch was listed as critical and effects Microsoft Office Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007 as well as Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac.
"Our teams are testing a fix and will release it once it meets our quality bar for broad distribution.", Sisk wrote.