Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Microsoft investigates new Office zero-day flaw
I don't know who coined the phrase "zero-day flaw", but AFAICT it's
nonsense.
The term "zero-day" refers to an *exploit* or *warez* released on the
*same day* as an official software release. Flaws, vulnerabilities or
official software releases cannot be described as "zero-day". That just
makes no sense.
Apart from anything else, this is not "day zero" for MSO2007, nor any of
its updates AFAICT, and even if it was, it would be the the exploit or
warez that would be zero-day, not the software or flaw itself.
I don't doubt that this flaw exists, though, but the terminology here is
just wrong.
--
K.
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